All people are philosophers, differing from professionals only in degree

Evidence

The principle must first be established that all men are “philosophers”, that is, that between the professional or “technical” philosophers and the rest of mankind, the difference is not one of “quality” but only of “quantity”. (The term “quantity” is being used here in a special sense, which is not to be confused with its meaning in arithmetic, since what it indicates is greater or lesser degrees of “homogeneity”, “coherence”, “logicality”, etc.; in other words, quantity of qualitative elements.) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1245

Categorization

• XREF: Underpins Gramsci’s later concept of common sense — everyone holds a philosophy even if not theoretically articulated — foundational for hegemony theory.
• QUESTION: How does ‘quantity of qualitative elements’ translate into a usable analytic category when examining popular worldviews?