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The earliest known use of the word common sense is in the mid 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for common sense is from 1533, in the writing of Thomas More, lord chancellor, humanist, and martyr.
"Common sense" has at least two older and more specialized meanings which have influenced the modern meanings, and are still important in philosophy.
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.
Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense, published at the beginning of that momentous year, 1776, rapidly became a bestseller, with an estimated 100,000 copies flying off the shelves, as it were, before the year was out.
To examine that connection and dependance, on the principles of nature and common sense, to see what we have to trust to, if separated, and what we are to expect, if dependant.
B1. the basic level of practical knowledge and judgment that we all need to help us live in a reasonable and safe way: Windsurfing is perfectly safe as long as you have/use some common sense. a matter of common sense. Synonym. horse sense old-fashioned. See also. sense noun. Fewer examples. Anyone with any common sense would have known what to do.
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