Making Common Sense Robert A. Neimeyer finding glimmers of possibility even

finding glimmers of possibility even in dystopic science fiction

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these are processes that remain invisible to the consumer's eye and in scholarly debates about creative industries

Making Common Sense Robert A. Neimeyer finding glimmers of possibility evenCommon sense is supposed to be so obvious it can go without saying. And yet, it has been hard to pin down, partly because its contents are vague and inconsistent, and partly because it has always been difficult to say what kind of sense common sense is. Making Common Sense is an historical account of attempts, from antiquity to the present, to solve this puzzle. The ambiguity began centuries ago with the merger of the common sense, the sensorium