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Sunday, February 14, 2010

Philosophers on Common Sense

"[C]ommon sense -- that repository of ancient error."

-Nelson Goodman ('Languages of Art', p. xii)

"Common sense is the metaphysics of savages."

-Bertrand Russell (quoted by Ray Monk in 'What Philosophers Think', p. 168)
Posted by Charles P. Everitt at 4:54 PM

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