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I am am using Firefox 10.0.2. The latest version is 17.0.1. I have consistently refused to update to anything after 10.0.2 becuase of what is reported as an unresolved issue relating to Windows (I am runnng Windows 7), and I quote:
“The use of Microsoft System Restore functionality shortly after updating Firefox my prevent future updates. (730285)”
Is this issue ever going to be resolved, and whose problem is it: Window’s or Mozilla’s?
Or should I just switch to another browser?
I have this theory, of which I am coming very close to proving, it is this:
“In most people education and common sense are inversely proportional.”
I have this theory, of which I am coming very close to proving, it is this:
“In most people education and common sense are inversely proportional.”
I take offense to this since I have a college degree. I think you’ll find the per cent of the population with common sense the same with or without a degree.
Jerry
I take offense to this since I have a college degree. I think you’ll find the per cent of the population with common sense the same with or without a degree.
Jerry
Please do not be offended in this.
Did your college degree not teach you to read the “WHOLE” theory before replying? You may not be part of the “most people” category.
However your reply may be indicative of me being incorrect in this assumption.
I may need to add this post to the proof positive column. 
Well, you don’t even want to say common sense, what you probably really mean is good sense. Common sense merely intimates the leanings of the majority and I know of plenty of instances when common sense is NOT good sense. It just makes good sense to say good sense and not common sense.
Well, you don’t even want to say common sense, what you probably really mean is good sense. Common sense merely intimates the leanings of the majority and I know of plenty of instances when common sense is NOT good sense. It just makes good sense to say good sense and not common sense.
I would define “Common Sense” to be those things that are intuitive to all or “intuition”. My theory is that in some people, this is replaced with what they perceive to be something better or maybe the intuition is dismissed if it has not also been part of the education? Like any theory there needs to be much discussion, study and examples that either prove or disprove the theory.
“The problem with common sense is it isn’t!” 
:cheers:
Well, since the OP seems to have moved on one way or another, I agree in part Russ, it does stem from intuition, but I’ve always had the further thought that intuition has to be based on something, it can’t just arise and exist from whole cloth. Namely it initially comes from experience with the physical world and is then refined by the predictive success of those interactions when it comes to new but similar interactions; and in using the term predictive success I’ve subtly added another component, that of analysis. Like a great chess player who seems to make every move as if he/she didn’t even think about, as if though it were intuitive to his or her nature, when in reality, it’s the analysis of the ongoing board configuration and his or her ability to branch three or four or five or more moves ahead based on past game interactions that only makes he or she appear to be brilliantly intuitive.
Based on that, I would say that so-called lack of common sense is really continual failure to analyze past similar situations and make good predictive or intuitive decisions in the moment.
Anyway, I contend that something has to be the source for intuition, babies are not born knowing the round peg fits in the round hole and the square in the square hole. Their intuition needs to be developed just as much as everything else does.
p.s. I should have just looked up common sense! 
…Often ideas that may be considered to be true by common sense are in fact false. Conversely, certain ideas that are subject to elaborate academic analysis oftentimes yield superior outcomes via the application of common sense.
To me, when common sense transmits falsehood, then when someone says, “well he or she just lacks common sense,” that doesn’t cover those cases because in that case its good he or she lacks common sense, and that is not what we mean when we say that phrase. That is the only reason I say we should say good sense because common sense can be true or false…unless there are some situations where a false common sense is actually better for us…I haven’t thought about it that way.
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