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The Appeal to Common Sense

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

H. H. Price M.A., B.Sc.
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Thus we cannot simply dismiss the principles of common sense as invalid or fictitious. What attitude, then, ought we to adopt towards them? There are two obvious suggestions.

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Philosophy , Volume 5 , Issue 18 , April 1930, pp. 191 - 202
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1930

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page 192 note 1 And others? Those who do not obey are sent to lunatic asylums.

page 196 note 1 A further point: The theory says that only sense-data and images are knowable. But it itself can hardly be a mere set of sense-data and images. Or if it is, it is mere noise and ink-marks, and cannot be true or false.

page 200 note 1 Or if you will, we are more than sure, because we are in a state where the distinction between sure and unsure does not arise at all.

page 201 note 1 I do not mean that beliefs cannot be true, but only that the believer of them cannot know that they are true.