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Common sense

For James, not everyday good judgement but the set of most familiar concepts people use to put order into experience: thing, cause, time, space.

Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking, William James

Explained in

• Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking, William James
• Physics of the Future, Michio Kaku

  Here, the huge store of simple knowledge about the world that people pick up from childhood: water is wet, a dropped object falls down. It is very hard to pass on to machines.

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