Plus the definition is basically having good judgement on practical matters, where the situation has an obvious solution which the majority of people have the knowledge or experience to understand.
Nobody said that every single person in the world has to know it for it to become common sense.
Common sense is having enough sense to know that if it hurts, you should stop. Or say in a class where your teacher has never asked you to ever double space a paper and doesn't specify this time, asking if you should would be a dumb question because Common Sense says that they won't suddenly change their mind. You, bananaface, put it perfectly. Couldn't have put it better myself.
Ah well, I clearly have a different interpretation to everybody else then. I always thought of "common sense" to mean common *to everybody*, as in something that everyone has *in common* with eachother. For example, I often hear people say "That's just common sense" in a tone suggesting "everyone knows it, how come you don't?". Weird differences in how different people with slightly different definitions of words and phrases greatly interests me.
Is it normal That I Lack Common Sense?
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I don't believe that common sense even exists. There is nothing that every single person knows.
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Yes but it's common, hence the name common sense.
Plus the definition is basically having good judgement on practical matters, where the situation has an obvious solution which the majority of people have the knowledge or experience to understand.
Nobody said that every single person in the world has to know it for it to become common sense.
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Common sense is having enough sense to know that if it hurts, you should stop. Or say in a class where your teacher has never asked you to ever double space a paper and doesn't specify this time, asking if you should would be a dumb question because Common Sense says that they won't suddenly change their mind. You, bananaface, put it perfectly. Couldn't have put it better myself.
Ah well, I clearly have a different interpretation to everybody else then. I always thought of "common sense" to mean common *to everybody*, as in something that everyone has *in common* with eachother. For example, I often hear people say "That's just common sense" in a tone suggesting "everyone knows it, how come you don't?". Weird differences in how different people with slightly different definitions of words and phrases greatly interests me.
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Yeah, I've had that said to me like that before:(