Making Sense of Common Sense Knowledge - Benjamin Kuipers on using commonsense reasoning to make useful conclusions, or, finding gold nuggets in a pan of sand. Ubiquity (Volume 4, Number 45). "UBIQUITY: Would it be wrong-headed to suggest that 'common sense' is a very squishy term, since John McCarthy, Joe McCarthy, Eugene McCarthy and Charlie McCarthy would have had radically different and incompatible views of what is 'commonsensical'? What is common about commonsense knowledge if there's no real agreement on what commonsense knowledge actually means in ordinary life? And if commonsense knowledge is undeterminable, how can you build on it?"
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