COMMON SENSE

здравый смысл

common sense: translation

▪ good, sound

▪ plain, pure, simple

▪ practical

▪ have

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That child has no common sense!

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At least he had the common sense to turn the water off before he left.

▪ exercise, rely on, show, use

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Use a bit of common sense!

▪ prevail

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I hope that common sense will prevail.

▪ dictate sth, suggest sth, tell sb sth

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Common sense should tell you that people will find out sooner or later.

▪ (not) an ounce of common sense

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He doesn't have an ounce of common sense.

common sense: translation

   Among the most influential philosophical approaches in 19th- and 20th-century Protestant theology has been the common sense realism of Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid (1710-96). Reid, who taught at both King's College in Aberdeen and the University of Glasgow, developed his philosophical, ethical, and religious ideas in reaction to the views of philosophers David Hume and George Berkeley. Both men believed that humans related to the world via perceptions, ideas, and the mind. Reid championed common sense, that ordinary people (as well as intellectuals) could gain a reliable perception of the world through the use of their senses. Individuals, he posited, also have an innate moral sense. Theologically, Reid's approach suggested that anyone could grasp the meaning of the Bible by a simple and somewhat literal reading. Reid published his view in several books, the most important being An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense (1764), Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (1785), and Essays on the Active Powers of Man (1788).

   Reid found an early champion in the United States in John Witherspoon (1723-94), long-term president of the College of New Jersey (Princeton University). The ideas were incorporated into what is called Princeton Theology, with its emphasis on the literal reading of the biblical text.

   While Reid remains popular in some Fundamentalist and Evangelical circles, common sense philosophy suffered in modern times from the apparent failure of anthropologists to document a common moral sense in their observation of different cultures, and as subatomic physics revealed a world not previously available to sensory perception or understandable through common sense.

   Further reading:

   ■ Melvin Dalgarno, The Philosophy of Thomas Reid (Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989)

   ■ Norman Daniels, Thomas Reid's Inquiry: The Geometry of Visibles and the Case for Realism (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1989)

   ■ John Haldane, The Philosophy of Thomas Reid: A Collection of Essays (oxford: Blackwell, 2003)

   ■ Thomas Reid, The Works of Thomas Reid, 4 vols. (Charlestown, U.K.: Samuel Etheridge, 1813) Various editions.

common sense: translation

In early modern writing (e.g. Descartes ) the faculty responsible for coordinating the deliveries of the different senses. In this meaning the objects of common sense are the ‘common sensibles’, i.e. qualities such as extension and motion that can be detected by more than one sense. Later the term loses any special meaning, coming to refer just to the sturdy good judgement, uncontaminated by too much theory and unmoved by scepticism, that is supposed to belong to persons before they become too philosophical. Ryle once suggested that Locke invented common sense, and Russell added that none but Englishmen have had it ever since. The term became prominent in philosophy after Moore argued in ‘A Defence of Common Sense’ that no philosophical argument purporting to establish scepticism could be more certain than his common-sense convictions. Moore's knowledge that he had a hand was more certain than any philosophical premises or trains of argument purporting to show that he did not know this.

1. здравый смысл; по Аристотелю - способность постигать свойство объектов с помощью чувств;

2. способность с помощью чувств воспринимать время и пространство;

3. мнения и суждения, свойственные "среднему человеку";

4. основательно аргументированное суждение.

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1) здравый смысл; по Аристотелю - способность постигать свойство объектов с помощью чувств;

2) способность с помощью чувств воспринимать время и пространство;

3) мнения и суждения, свойственные "среднему человеку";

4) основательно аргументированное суждение.

Common Sense: übersetzung

Com|mon Sense, der; - -, Com|mon|sense, der; - ['kɔmən 'sɛns , auch: 'kɔmənsɛns ; engl. common sense, zu: sense = Sinn, Verstand < lat. sensus ↑ (sensuell)] (bildungsspr.):

Com|mon Sense ['kɔmən 'sɛns], der; - -, (auch:) Com|mon|sense, der; - [engl. common sense, zu: sense = Sinn, Verstand < lat. sensus (↑sensuell)]: gesunder Menschenverstand.

common sense: translation

admissibility, balance, cool head, coolheadedness, coolness, due sense of, good sense, gumption, horse sense, judgment, justifiability, justness, level head, levelheadedness, logic, logicality, logicalness, plain sense, plausibility, practical mind, practical wisdom, practicality, rationality, reason, reasonability, reasonableness, saneness, sanity, sense, sensibleness, sober-mindedness, soberness, sobriety, sound sense, soundness, sweet reason, wisdom

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