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Throughout human history, survival and the formation of complex societies have heavily depended on knowledge. Equally crucial are the assumptions about what others perceive as true or false, namely ...

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This story originally published on Oct. 22, 2025. The idea of "common sense" has been central to American politics since the founding of the United States. Politicians still use the phrase all the ...

InvestigationWhile the notion of 'common sense' has created fertile ideological ground for the emergence of liberal democracies, its blurred definition today allows unscrupulous politicians, ...

The problem with common sense, goes an old joke, is that it is not so common. A less-recognized problem is that sometimes it doesn’t make sense, either. Those contradictions were on display during a ...