Common Grace, Like Sense, Certainly Not as Common as It Should Be

Common Sense in Environmental Impact Assessment It is not as Common as it Should Be

Reviews of environmental impact assessment (EIA) practice, particularly by industrial proponents, have highlighted common shortfalls. EIA would benefit from more ‘common sense’, which is not very common. For example, issue scoping usually includes too many inconsequential factors, and issues not directly affecting project decisions. Consideration of significance is often vague, misleading or in...

Rational drug use - As common as common sense?

Rational Choice Theory as Formalized Common Sense

Few methodological issues are more stubborn than the status of rational choice theory (henceforth, RCT): the debates surrounding it are approximately five decades old with no end in sight. Fifty years are a long time not only in the life of any human being but also in the progress of a discipline so it is remarkable that the discussion is not closer to a conclusion now than what it was at its i...

Clipart Images as Common Sense Categories

Clipart is the visual representation of commonsense categories and stereotypes—of social representations, in the sense of Moscovici. As indexed and displayed on line for downloading on Microsoft's Design Gallery and Art Today's clipart.com, the clips exhibit strong threads of continuity with earlier popular illustration and rhetorical manuals of gesture. At the same time, they also register dif...

Information-Dependent Games: Can Common Sense Be Common Knowledge?

This paper attempts to study the consistency of several basic gametheoretic axioms. We focus on two of these: _q_qmmon_.knowledge (CK) and common sense (CS). Common knowledge assumes that the game itself and all other game-theoretic axioms imposed on the model are common knowledge~ Common sense assumes that when a player has a strictly dominant strategy, he/she will play it. We use the followin...