Common-Sense philosophy

Architect of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution. Minister to France. First postmaster. Known internationally for his common-sense philosophy. For details, see his writings or any Encycl. Inventor of elect initiation (Ref 1)... 

Swords, "Graham," 11-15, 33-50. He comments, "Common Sense philosophy made motion and phenomena practically a tautology. Motion was the ground of all phenomena" (14n). 

In chapter 1 we noted the probable influence of the Common-Sense school on Couper s fellow Scots/English chemists Williamson and Graham. In reference to the 1826-27 atomistic formulas of the Glaswegian chemist Thomas Clark, W. V. Farrar has seen "a climate of thought in Scotland favourable to naive structuralism," and argued for a culmination of this trend in the formulas of Couper and Alexander Crum Brown. More broadly, Richard Olson has explored the influence of Scottish Common-Sense philosophy on British physics. This philosophical school arose in Thomas Reid s opposition to the skeptical writings... 

R.T. Carroll The Common-Sense Philosophy of Religion of Bishop Edward Stil-... 

Before commencing the direct application of the practices in this book, would-be practitioners need to be versed in the philosophy and metaphysics of the holy Qabalah. Most Western esoteric schools use the Qabalah, as Dion Fortune put it, because of its purity and common-sense. Alchemy is, in fact, the practical aspect of the Qabalah (as distinct from the theoretical aspects), the means by which Qabalistic teachings are actually attained. 

Durland, Karann. 1996. "Primary and Secondary Qualities Common Sense, Science, and Berkeley." Doctoral dissertation. Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina. 

We are not advocating inflation. Commodity chemical prices, with few exceptions have fallen or at best remained level during a long period of rising prices elsewhere in the economy. We are simply advocating a common-sense pricing philosophy that will conserve the financial health of all sectors of the chemical industry. 

At first, the double role of chemistry created for Kant a kind of paradox. On the one hand, as part of natural science, chemistry was not a proper science (because it was merely empirical) on the other hand, chemistry stands as a paradigm for the method of critical philosophy (e.g., the methods of analysis, separation, purification, and synthesis are shared by chemistry and philosophy).32 Perhaps neither philosophy nor chemistry can be mathematized, but they have something else their constructive method. Chemistry as a practical science or art is more like moral science than like physics. For example, Kant says that a procedure which resembles chemistry, is a procedure needed in the analysis of moral common sense—what Komer (1991) has referred to as the quasi-chemical method. 33... 

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