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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7180908" data-attributes="member: 4937">Sure.&nbsp; But &quot;common sense&quot; has almost no relationship to wisdom, though of course &quot;common sense&quot; says otherwise.Common sense is largely a social construct.&nbsp; It's the basic working model of the world that society constructs and imparts to its members, and which largely exists unquestioned by the members of society.&nbsp;&nbsp; Having no &quot;common sense&quot; can make it hard at times to relate to other members of society, and people with poor social skills similar fail to learn &quot;common sense&quot; from lack of socialization.&nbsp;&nbsp; But whether that is an advantage or disadvantage depends on the particulars of that body of knowledge.&nbsp;&nbsp; Most societies have &quot;common sense&quot; which is a highly evolved construct, based on the accumulated practical knowledge of centuries.&nbsp;&nbsp; And as such, &quot;common sense&quot; often is very practical as it concerns every day affairs.&nbsp; It also tends to be wildly wrong in areas that humans reason poorly in (statistics, quantification, etc.) and in areas humans don't have direct experience or about things which aren't experienced every day.People from two different cultures can also have profound culture shock when encountering the other cultures &quot;common sense&quot;, which will mostly seem like insanity rather than sense to the other person.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7180908, member: 4937"] Sure. But "common sense" has almost no relationship to wisdom, though of course "common sense" says otherwise. Common sense is largely a social construct. It's the basic working model of the world that society constructs and imparts to its members, and which largely exists unquestioned by the members of society. Having no "common sense" can make it hard at times to relate to other members of society, and people with poor social skills similar fail to learn "common sense" from lack of socialization. But whether that is an advantage or disadvantage depends on the particulars of that body of knowledge. Most societies have "common sense" which is a highly evolved construct, based on the accumulated practical knowledge of centuries. And as such, "common sense" often is very practical as it concerns every day affairs. It also tends to be wildly wrong in areas that humans reason poorly in (statistics, quantification, etc.) and in areas humans don't have direct experience or about things which aren't experienced every day. People from two different cultures can also have profound culture shock when encountering the other cultures "common sense", which will mostly seem like insanity rather than sense to the other person. [/QUOTE]

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