at the core of this is language, which is both a lossy medium for transmitting thoughts and-appears to be designed to be-ambiguous. it doesn’t help too that we

at the core of this is language, which is both a lossy medium for transmitting thoughts and-appears to be designed to be-ambiguous. it doesn’t help too that we don’t study it anymore, and seem to be slowly gravitating towards a small core vocabulary that is called into all sorts of services. our words are in tension at all times. on common sense, i’d define it as the substrate of all of one’s experiences through life. it’s empirical. there’s no absolute common sense where there’s no absolute experience. and that’s why education and other forms of civilization-preserving socializations are important. where you find yourself in firm possession of common sense that your interlocutors seem to lack, be curious and learn about their life experience.