Speccie reader Raymond has asked me to explain the meaning of the compound noun ‘common sense.’ It was Aristotle who first used the expression ‘common sense’, although he meant something different. We have, said Aristotle, five senses (sight, sound, touch, taste and smell) so he postulated that there might be a ‘common’ sense that drew these five sources together to give a complete sense of reality.
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