191 | Don't Trust Your Common Sense

Common sense is what you don't have to think about. It's just intuitively right. Another name for our base reaction to things without thinking first is human bias, logical fallacy, and wrongheadedness. Common sense is overated. Next time you think something is common sense, you might want to stop and think again!

Links for Today:

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https://www.cyc.com/

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2020/11/248194-seeking-artificial-common-sense/fulltext (Chappell, Sophie-Grace, "Plato on Knowledge in the Theaetetus", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2019 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/59/59-h/59-h.htm#part1)

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2020/11/248194-seeking-artificial-common-sense/fulltext

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-power-prime/201107/common-sense-is-neither-common-nor-sense (Descartes, René, 1596-1650. (1986). Discourse on method. New York : London :Macmillan ; Collier Macmillan)

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-power-prime/201107/common-sense-is-neither-common-nor-sense (Psychology Today Blog: Common Sense is Neither Common nor Sense)

https://skeptoid.com/blog/2015/05/01/joint-pain-part-3 (The link was broken so I tried to find the original source, it was somewhere on this website)

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