geni wrote:
On 2/25/07, Sage Ross <sage.ross(a)yale.edu>
wrote:
Given that
old enough census data is published with can confirm rather
a lot of people exist as well. Confirming somthing exists doesn't mean
much.
I said "be more accommodating"; I don't mean to imply that existence
is sufficient. A measure of common sense
[[Wikipedia:There is no common sense]]
A questionable essay, but just an essay.
Common sense has no requirement to be logical or to be
based on
evidence and thus has no place in a rational system.
I suppose that that is technically correct, but such a strictly rational
system exists only in theory. The logical extension of your rational
system is personified in Mr. Bean.
Of course we live in a world where there are huge
social pressures to
accept <s>bellyfeel</s> common sense
There are even more pressures to conform to established structures such
as government bureaucracies and an endless flow of useless forms.
If you want a system that outsides have a hope of
figuring out you
will set up system that includes as little common sense as possible.
This has got to be one of your more idiosyncratic pieces of sophistry.
Imagine! Purporting to logicaly disprove the existence of common
sense. There's a famous scene from a Jack Nicholson movie ("Five Easy
Pieces"?) where he orders something slightly different from what is on
the restaurant menu. The waitress cannot comply because it's not
written on the menu. I've had a similar experience at breakfast in a
restaurant. My then wife wanted one egg, but the menu only specified
two eggs. In the establishment's mind serving only one egg was impossible.
Common sense is what keeps things from being stupid.
when assessing
an article's
reliability combined with a little looser official standards for
notability is the main thing (i.e., accepting that some topics that
people want to see in Wikipedia will have few good sources but keeping
rather than deleting them is still a plus to the overall quality of
Wikipedia).
[[WP:NOR]]
Taking refuge in rules doesn't solve very much.
Ec