Common sense in Philosophical and Scientific Perspective

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5. Scientific
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Reid
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••Itis an innate knowledge.
It is an innate knowledge.
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nature stimulus when time
passed human/ developed
passed human/ developed
intuition.
intuition. reasoning skills.
reasoning skills.
••Moral intuition- innate
Moral intuition- innate
knowledge about right.
knowledge about right.

6. Simon 1987; Crussan et al, 1999; Patton, 2003)
•Common sense and/or intuition is built primarily on
experience.
Chester Barnard
•Rationality and intution/common sense play
complementary role in managerial decision-making.
Simon (1987)
•Managers draw on both analysis and intuition in
responding quickly to problems and situations.
•Intuition and judgement (good), are simply analyses
frozen from habit(capacity for rapid response through
recognition)
•In order to respond quickly to circumstances manages
need to cultivate intuition and judgement over many
years of training and experiences.

7. Bennett
•Intution/common sense needs to be stimulated by
explicit knowledge and analysis and intuition should be
intermingled in decision-making.
Patton
•A balance between intuition and logic in decision-
making, intuition understood as pattern recognition
based on experience and learning that is used in
complex situation that require instantaneous
actions/behavior.
Tsoukas(1994)
•Common sense mainly is something to be transcended.

8. Lamond(1998)
•Management is in any important way “common-
sensical” ,that is, whether there are any universal,
cross-cultural, common-sense elements to
management.
Nitecki (1987)
•Common sense as a potential hindrances to sound
managerial thinking and problem- solving.
•Two basic understanding of common sense:
•Intuitive Principle of mind
•Common Understanding