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submitted 3 days ago by comfy@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Wikipedia defines common sense as "knowledge, judgement, and taste which is more or less universal and which is held more or less without reflection or argument"

Try to avoid using this topic to express niche or unpopular opinions (they're a dime a dozen) but instead consider provable intuitive facts.

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[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

the sky is blue
an unbiased perspective

More abstract concepts that generally trouble the intuition of many:
the irrelevance of laminar to turbulent flow
time and gravity are related
magnetism is not magic
entropy precludes perpetual motion

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The sky is actually the entire colour spectrum with a bias toward the short wavelength end of the spectrum, which is why it appears pale blue-ish white.

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