Common sense is ambiguous and conservative, resisting new truths
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- Common sense is the sedimented residue of past philosophies, continually transforming. (similarity 0.93)
- Specific meaning arises only from an arbitrary contingent break (similarity 0.85)
- Historical change forces theorists to invent new, more concrete concepts (similarity 0.84)
- Ideologues claiming the key to reality must adapt to every new event (similarity 0.84)
- A philosophy’s historical impact is measured by its sediment in common sense. (similarity 0.84)
- An ultimate power to decide generates its own norms and cannot be trusted (similarity 0.83)
- Sinn precedes meaning as the horizon of possibilities (similarity 0.83)
- Critical work advances dialogically and never reaches stable theoretical ground. (similarity 0.83)
- Representation and misrepresentation differ only by degree within a shared field of discourse. (similarity 0.83)
- Common sense is contradictory and only validates truths by their historical spread (similarity 0.82)
- Trust necessarily stays moored in expectations and interests (similarity 0.82)
- Colin McGinn argues consciousness is a mystery that human intelligence will never unravel, as the hard problem of qualia cannot be resolved by humans. (similarity 0.82)
- Trust is merely evidence-based expectation while trustworthiness is motivational (similarity 0.82)
- Cultural meanings are unstable and shift with the social field (similarity 0.82)
- Reductionists accept only ‘temporary mysterianism’—current ignorance about consciousness that future science may resolve—versus ‘permanent mysterianism,’ which claims the mystery is unsolvable. (similarity 0.82)