For those of us who believe in efficiency, empathy, and a basic understanding of how the world works, certain behaviors feel like a personal affront. They're not just minor inconveniences; they’re ...

Common sense is free of charge. You don’t need to spend a single cent on making practical judgments, nor do you need to acquire them using special knowledge. Yet, some people would still choose to go ...

Throughout human history, survival and the formation of complex societies have heavily depended on knowledge. Equally crucial are the assumptions about what others perceive as true or false, namely ...

In my youth, I came to understand the term "common sense" as implying that though you may not have extensive knowledge about a topic or even extensive skill in reasoning, you likely have enough of ...

MUNICH, Germany: Four golfers swarm into a little caddy car as they are surprised by a hailstorm during a golf tournament in Munich on 28 June 2005. The storm took ten minutes only, and the sportsmen ...

There is a lot to be said for René Descartes’s little book Discourse on Method for Rightly Conducting Reason and Searching for Truth in the Sciences. Although published in the 17th-century, it is in ...