Where does common sense originate?

Answer 1

The first meaning was proposed by John Locke in his An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. This interpretation is based on phenomenological experience. Each of the senses gives input, and then these must be integrated into a single impression. This is the common sense, the sense of things in common between disparate impressions. It is therefore allied with "fancy", and it is opposed to "judgment", or the capacity to divide like things into separates. Each of the empiricist philosophers approach the problem of the unification of sense data in one's own way, giving various names to the operation. However, all believe that there is a sense in the human understanding that sees commonality and does the combining. This is the "common sense".

Answer 2

Common sense may have originated with a person's culture. Like people's perception (of reality and truth), common sense can vary upon each individual because we all have different experiences with different expectations.

For instance, it is common sense to take off your shoes when entering a house in Japan but it isn't so in America.

I think Oldman is wrong in some sense. It can originate with culture as common belief is held by the common people or group. One meaning of the term common sense on a strict construction of the term, is what people in common would agree; that which they "sense" in common as their common natural understanding. Some use the phrase to refer to beliefs or propositions that in their opinion they consider would in most people's experience be prudent and of sound judgment, without dependence upon esoteric knowledge or study or research, but based upon what is believed to be knowledge held by people "in common". The knowledge and experience most people have, or are believed to have by the person using the term.

Answer 3

It's something bred into us at a young age. People have been taught for years and years that certain things are good and certain things aren't. Usually parents teach us these things. However, some things are just bred into us. It's common sense to eat. Our earliest ancestors figured this out, so it's been put into our minds as common sense.

Answer 4

Common sense is based on the combination of logic and emotion. It has nothing to do with culture. We feel with our hearts and we have the ability to think logically with our minds. Not to say that many people do. These two in conjunction, give us all the information we need to form a culturally acceptable consensus or frame of thought. No matter what topic. As we acquire knowledge and learn to control our emotions, our ability to think logically with controlled emotion allows us to have more common sense.

Answer 5

To a degree, I think this is an ability we are born with or not. It is sort of a logic intelligence. We haven't developed a way to measure it but I still think it exsists. We have all sorts of types of intelligence, why not a common sense intelligence?

Answer 6

Our ancestors, the ones who had to learn the hard way that jumping off a cliff is bad. It was bred into their children and eventually became something that we are born with.

Answer 7

common sense is passed throught the genes. people who dont have common sense eventually become die/extinct, therefore not propogating their common senseless genes!

Answer 8

with human knowledge passed to us, from our parents, friends, teachers, relations, TV, etc, generation after generation

Answer 9

With your parents, if you're lucky.