Oswaldo Porchat and the philosophy of common sense
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The paper advances the hypothesis that Oswaldo Porchat’s philosophy of common
knowledge approaches a common sense philosophy, especially, that of Thomas Reid.
It is argued that, although both philosophers start from different starting points, Porchat’s and Reid’s philosophical proposals have at least six points of contact: the notions of ‘common knowledge’ and ‘common sense’; the universality of the beliefs which constitutes these sorts of knowledge; the impossibility of rationally justifying them; the philosophical character of common knowledge and common sense; the moderate pretension of justification of both; the ridiculousness of opposition to
common knowledge and common sense.
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