05-03-2006, 10:30 AM
The proposal is that there be One rule: "Beliefs, political and religious, spiritual and philosophical must NEVER supercede common sense."
I do not agree. Common sense can be terribly insufficient and give spectacularly wrong answers as has been shown many times in science and in good philosohpy. I fear common sense is bad also in other human affairs.
Jeff
Einstein used to say "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
I do not agree. Common sense can be terribly insufficient and give spectacularly wrong answers as has been shown many times in science and in good philosohpy. I fear common sense is bad also in other human affairs.
Jeff
Einstein used to say "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
Jeffery Wyss
"Si vos es non secui of solutio tunc vos es secui of preciptate."
"Si vos es non secui of solutio tunc vos es secui of preciptate."
