^"common sense （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary: "sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts."
"common sense （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）." Cambridge Dictionary: "the basic level of practical knowledge and judgment that we all need to help us live in a reasonable and safe way."
van Holthoorn & Olson (1987，第9頁) harvtxt模板錯誤: 無指向目標: CITEREFvan_HolthoornOlson1987 (幫助): "common sense consists of knowledge, judgement, and taste which is more or less universal and which is held more or less without reflection or argument."
C.S. Lewis (1967，第146頁) harvtxt模板錯誤: 無指向目標: CITEREFLewis1967 (幫助) wrote that what common sense "often means" is "the elementary mental outfit of the normal man."
^The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary of 1973 gives four meanings of "common sense": An archaic meaning is "An internal sense which was regarded as the common bond or centre of the five senses"; "Ordinary, normal, or average understanding" without which a man would be "foolish or insane", "the general sense of mankind, or of a community" (two sub-meanings of this are good sound practical sense and general sagacity); A philosophical meaning, the "faculty of primary truths."
