Common sense, Principles of common sense, Thomas Reid, Judgment, Self-evident propositions, fundamental beliefs

The paper is focused on issue of so-called common sense. The notion of common sense has been widely used in everyday speech and had its place within numerous philosophical doctrines in the past. However, its meaning is vague in everyday speech, and it was also vaguely used in philosophical doctrines. The main ambition of this paper is to define what in philosophy has been meant by common sense. For this reason, the paper will deal with the notion of common sense especially in the period of Enlightenment, when it was formally listed to the philosophy and the philosophy of common sense has become an influential doctrine. Emphasis will be placed on different interpretations and approaches to this notion and what these approaches are based on, and also on the ambiguities in the list of the principles of common sense and the problems that come with this notion.