Collective democratic action requires a shared stock of factual and interpretive common sense.
Evidence
On our understanding, common sense refers to our acceptance of the intractable facts about the world and our already existing shared experience and understanding about our social world. That is what conspiracism betrays. We need these two elements—facticity and common interpretation—for any collective action in democracy. Political discussion is only possible when we have a stock of shared understandings—this is what common sense supplies. If such and such is a matter of common sense, it is ordinarily not something that can only be appreciated by experts or by particular groups or tribes. — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 288
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines common sense as facticity plus shared interpretation underpinning democratic discussion.
- XREF: connects to: Common sense is the shared ground that makes democratic exchange possible; Political action requires shared common sense that conspiracism destroys — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 292; Effective political action requires common opinions, affections, and interests (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Common sense is the shared ground that makes democratic exchange possible
#corroborates(0.95) - Effective political action requires common opinions, affections, and interests
#corroborates(0.90) - Political action requires shared common sense that conspiracism destroys
#corroborates(0.85) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 292 - Common sense is a political resource against the imposition of a ruler’s single reality.
#expands(0.80) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 290