are you born with common sense or do you learn it?

Answer 1

Well, let's see.

You have an electrical cord. You hand it to an adult. He plugs a lamp into it. You hand it to a baby. He puts it in his mouth.

What's your conclusion?

Answer 2

You are born with it.

Common sense is just the ability to reason with deductive logic.
Most people cannot reason well, and some don't know what deductive logic is. So the phrase, or cliche "common sense is not so common" is actually true.

You could also say that common sense is knowing without learning. For example, if you stand on a railroad track when a train is coming right at you, common sense would make you stand aside so you don't get hit, or just the knowledge that if you stand there the train will, in fact, hit you. And standing aside is just a choice.

Answer 3

As in the Legal notion of a Reasonable Man, Common Sense is acquired. All we can really claim to know is via experience and the logic in which we assume to calculate possibilities. Common Sense is the notion that an average person with reasonable education and experience takes as a general rule. Hence not the actual understanding of a professional or scholar but what the average person might assume.

Answer 4

Common sense is learned from at least 6 months old if not earlier. You are not born with it. Common sense is different in different culture. Example: It is common sense to drive on the right on any street in America only if you were taught to drive on the right side. If you were to go in England, it would be common sense to drive on the right side sense they drive on the left side. Some people were not raised in the same culture as most people hence there common sense might not make sense to most people. You see!!!!!!

Answer 5

It is a "sense" that we all learn as we grow and experience.
Hence, it is called "common" sense. Plato spoke of a "ring of Knowledge" which everyone could access. It has also been identified with the Higher Self which would naturally allow one to have "spontaneous right action", which could be perceived to be the source for common sense.

Answer 6

You definitely have to learn it. Someone quipped, "Common sense is not all that common" or something to that effect. Proof positive (true story!) - my cousin's husband (cousin-in-law?) graduated from Yale in 3 years with both a Master's and a Doctorate. Yet, he could not figure out how to turn on the lawnmower. Common sense would seem that he would read the directions printed on the lawnmower!

Answer 7

You are born (or not, as the case so frequently seems to be) with the propensity for gaining it, and that propensity causes you to learn in a certain way. The result of that, which is really the way you percieve and use knowledge, is common (or not) sense.

Answer 8

You do learn it; Common sense is the ability to reason, usually backed by some experiences. Each person's common sense could be different.

"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense; no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has." -Descartes

Answer 9

If one is fortunate, he learns a good deal of common sense through experience and having mentors, but except for instinct, babies are usually unintelligent until taught.

Answer 10

If i requested you what colour the sky is what would you answer? if you're saying blue then you definately're properly, instantly ahead sense extremely... so that you won't be able to be born with it and its no longer extremely realized yet you only have it, anybody does it only is how a lot and the position to computer screen it.

Answer 11

I would say you learn it. You see others doing it or someone tells you that is what you do. Like not eating dirt is common sense, but how did you learn not to eat dirt? Your mom or dad or someone told you not to and then you say others not eating dirt.