Common sense is a chaotic aggregate allowing any claim to be confirmed

Evidence

Common sense is a chaotic aggregate of disparate conceptions, and one can find there anything that one likes. Furthermore, this attitude of Croce’s towards common sense has not led to a conception of culture which is productive from the national-popular point of view, that is to a more concretely historicist conception of philosophy—but that in any case could happen only with the philosophy of praxis. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1510

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes Gramsci’s core definition of common sense as chaotic, contradictory aggregate — central to how later Islamophobia readings use ‘common sense’ (Hall’s influence).
• XREF: Directly the concept Stuart Hall and the Birmingham school adopt: common sense as the terrain where hegemony is won. This is the toolkit item the reader needs. — connects to: Common sense is an incoherent aggregate containing any and all conceptions — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1510; Common sense is contradictory and only validates truths by their historical spread — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1513

Broader Connections

• Common sense is an incoherent aggregate containing any and all conceptions #corroborates (0.95) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1510
• Common sense is contradictory and only validates truths by their historical spread #corroborates (0.85) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1513