G.S. Kirk argues that the disregard for this concept was a unifying feature of pre-Socratics. In the philosophy of science, John McCarthy attempts to "formalize" this concept in artificial intelligence while in biomedical ethics it is advocated for by Howard Leventhal. In an essay from Objective Knowledge, Karl Popper discusses the "Two Faces" of this. A more famous essay concerning this concept argues for the certainty of the statement "there are and have been material things" based on statements like "this is my hand." That essay is title a Defense of this concept an
G.S. Kirk argues that the disregard for this concept was a unifying feature of pre-Socratics. In the philosophy of science, John McCarthy attempts to "formalize" this concept in artificial intelligence while in biomedical ethics it is advocated for by Howard Leventhal. In an essay from Objective Knowledge, Karl Popper discusses the "Two Faces" of this. A more famous essay concerning this concept argues for the certainty of the statement "there are and have been material things" based on statements like "this is my hand." That essay is title a Defense of this concept and is by G.E. Moore.   Dugald Stewart, James Mackintosh and the author of Essays on the Intellectual Power of Man advocated it as an answer to Hume's skepticism. FTP, identify this concept beloved by Thomas Reid and his Scottish school, something a proverb claims may not actually be so ubiquitous.
G.S. Kirk argues that the disregard for this concept was a unifying feature of pre-Socratics.
{common sense} [prompt on “{sense}” or “{sense data}” before “{artificial}”]