is there a differance bettween useing common sense & thinking logically?

Question

if so what is it plus tell me when to use one or the other?

Answer 1

you know it !!!

Common sense is how you live life.

Logic is from a book.

There are so many highly intelligent people that can't figure out how to use a manual can opener...

Answer 2

Yes. When you use common sense, you're basically drawing inferences based on past experience which may or may not apply to the future. Let me explain. Let's say you throw a rock at a window. Common sense tells you that the window will break right? Now lets say you break five more windows. Common sense tells you that since those five window broke all windows and to be specific all glass breaks right? Common sense is wrong this time. Since you cannot break an infinite number of windows an infinite number of times, you don't know whether or not the law you just created with common sense (ie that glass breaks) will apply to say 100,000th window you attempt to break. Logical thinking requires experimentation, computation, evaluation, and comparison, which can be very time consuming. Hope that sheds some light on your dilemma

Answer 3

Good question! There's a large scientific study of it and it's related to the central mysteries of the how the human mind works. Common sense is actually the deep processing of large amounts of knowledge that we package in terms easily understood by humans. We derive conclusions from this knowledge without apparently having to go through all the logical steps. A computer, on the other hand, would have to go through the logic to arrive at the same conclusions.
As a scientific discipline, the study of logic and common sense reasoning is very large. It is very important to the development of the next generation of computers.

Answer 4

Yes. Sometimes it is necessary NOT to think logically if you use common sense. Logic doesn't always work. Saying that, I think they do go hand in hand a lot of the time.

Answer 5

Common sense is automatic logic.
Logic will eventually become common sense.

Imagine the first time man saw fire. He probably put his hand in it and it hurt. Thinking logically, if he did it again it would hurt, so it then became common sense not to do it.

Answer 6

Yes.Common sense is superfical.It is rather based on experiance ,reading,hearing from others etc.It is what a common man will do.Logical thinking is based on reasoning and evidence etc.What decision taken based on common sense may not yield the result of logical thinking.

Answer 7

thinking common sense is responding to a situation like most people would usually do..thinking logically means responding with objectiveness and fairness

Answer 8

Yes I think so. Common sense is something you do instantly without thinking about it. Whereas thinking logically is taking your time to ponder over a problem.

Answer 9

Yep. Sometimes, in some situations, you don't have to think about things logically and stress your brain. You can just use your common sense.

Answer 10

well common sense is sumat u just know like lookin left and right wen crossin the road.logic wud b sumat u hav learned like crossin at a trafic light.common sense is knowin how to solve a problem logic is know the easyest and most sensible way to solve 1

Answer 11

Surely there is. A common sense answer is implicit, chosen by our reflexes but a logical answer is well thought and takes future implications into considerations as well.