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it is not a good idea to rely on "common sense" in an argument--you cant define it (above, i think il is closest in no. 436)---if it is more or less what hermeneutics types call "prejudice structures," then they are as much a filtering system as an apprehension system.
if you look at the german "alltagsgeschichte" (history of the everyday---the german is probably spelt wrong) sometime, you find a pretty damning analysis of petit bourgeois "common sense" as a system of perceptual filters--difficult to localize, difficult to specify, but not so hard to infer as being-at-work --that enabled folk to carry on their normal lives in the midst of deportations and not really notice much of anything. this work is mostly about the 1930s-40s in germany. it is about trying explain how genocide organized as the nazi party organized it was possible, not administratively, but more at the level of popular consent.
common sense is a way to refer to ideological effects that we perform in the normal run of our lives, when we are not particularly paying attention, when we are not particularly focussed..its a kind of immediacy, a frame that operates within the context of immediacy, which shapes it without requiring any particular effort.
any recursive statement entails a break with "common sense".
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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