Wednesday, August 2, 2023

Commonsense

What is commonsense? A gave a ball to B. Commonsense tells us that A gave it with his hands into B's hands. This comes from ball, actually from 'gave ball' But that raises the point that what is the status of 'gave ball' per se? That is what is 'gave ball' perceived as before the "hands come to the mind"? Because gave ball has to be understood as something, to convert it into or bring into mind the hands! I think it is just a tiny video clip of a slight jerk going away (to whatever in the surroundings). Such a clip because the symbolic commonality in all givings is that something "moves/goes away from the giver, to the taker". That what I think is the first impression of the linguistic entity - 'gave'. So the first impression of 'gave a ball' is that a "ball (perceived as what a ball is like) goes away". When the sentence is completely heard, the fact that A and B are 2 people in the scene gets noticed (after the B at the end is heard). In round two, there is a attempted rearrangment of the consumed entities to construct the first mechanical model (who's there? whats where? what goes to/becomes what?) of the scene. It is after this, that is that the entities have fallen in place in some mould, that the above commonsense should flash from "person, giving, a (small) object, to another person" collectively. What does this tell us about commonsense? Even commonsense knowledge asssumption over a given data is a "reasoning process". The fact that a small object was given, the fact that a person gave it and the fact that another person was given it, all contribute to the assumption/imagination of the so called commonsense knowledge. Whats the difference between commonsense knowledge and commonsense thinking? Firstly, call it commonsense reasoning or not, there is a thinking process to build the / to make occur the commonsense knowledge assumption. And then later there is obviously commonsense reasoning to weave commonsense assumptions/facts into something.

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