Stock image of a man and woman disagreeing. Common sense may differ significantly between individuals, research has found. ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS They found that between individuals, things ...

Thomas Paine published "Common Sense" on this day in history, Jan. 10, 1776. He savaged monarchies, inspired the colonies to rebellion and sold the equivalent of 66 million copies today.

Common sense is the domain of the obvious, the self-evident and what goes without saying. “Hot things can burn you,” for example, is the maxim with which historian Sophia Rosenfeld opens her ...

At its core, common sense requires both factual knowledge and the ability to reason with that knowledge. Memorizing a large set of facts isn’t enough.