The problem of common-sense reasoning has plagued the field of artificial intelligence for over 50 years. Now a new approach, borrowing from two disparate lines of thinking, has made important ...

How many of us have been admonished, "Use your common sense!" In actuality, the person has no idea what they are talking about, unfair to you. Reality and truth are not the same. We confuse the idea ...

Peter Ellerton does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Common sense might not be so common after all, new research has found. What one person might consider common sense might be very different to someone else, a new study in the journal Proceedings of ...

Professor, English and the Institute for the Comparative Study of Literature, Art, and Culture; Academic Director, Re.Climate: Centre for Climate Communication and Public Engagement, Carleton ...

In my youth, I came to understand the term "common sense" as implying that though you may not have extensive knowledge about a topic or even extensive skill in reasoning, you likely have enough of ...

Does it feel like having common sense just kind of evaporated in our society? Every day, CEOs make foolish decisions that hurt their own companies, politicians seem to throw their own careers under ...

The problem with common sense, goes an old joke, is that it is not so common. A less-recognized problem is that sometimes it doesn’t make sense, either. Those contradictions were on display during a ...