From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-16 10:37:45 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!dialin-145-254-042-076.arcor-ip.NET!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 19:37:35 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin-145-254-042-076.arcor-ip.net (145.254.42.76) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1082137063 4556022 I 145.254.42.76 ([77047]) User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7218 Date: 2004-04-16T19:37:35+02:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus wrote: > Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > > : Common sense is not formed, it either exists or not. > > Uhm, common sense is a term with a number of definitions, and > it typically is a construct of anthropology (in a broader sense > of the word). One more or less "formalised" view is by Kant, > Sensus Communis. (It's a long time I had a chance to even look > at this one.) Anyway common sense it is conceptualised with > different frames of reference in mind. > There is at best a correlation, like: this aggregate of persons > might think P about subject S, whereas another aggregate of persons > thinks Q about S, so there is a P-common sense among P-people, > and a Q-common sense among Q-people. > > So comon sense does not exist in an absolute sense, and it > is certainly formed. This can be seen in studies that > have employed ethnomethodology in various worldwise or > regional comparisons. > It doesn't exists in an absolute sense unless ideas (in the sense > of ideology, prejudice, preconceptions, etc) have a material > counterpart and and "idea-matter" does not depend on time, place, > human beings, ... > > For example, when you ask Ada programmers, they might say > common sense dictates software production procedures of type A, > whereas when you ask managment people, they might say > common sense dictates software production procedures of type B. I should have added a smiley to my sentence! (:-)) -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov www.dmitry-kazakov.de