In early 1776, Thomas Paine argued in the closing pages of the first edition of Common Sense that the “ custom of nations ” demanded a formal declaration of American independence if any European power were to mediate a peace between the Americans and Great Britain.

His French-language book Le défi des langues — Du gâchis au bon sens ( The Language Challenge: From Chaos to Common Sense, 1994 ) is a kind of psychoanalysis of international communication.

* Claude Piron, Le défi des langues — Du gâchis au bon sens ( The Language Challenge: From Chaos to Common Sense ), Paris, L ' Harmattan, 1994.

Among Moore's most famous works are his book Principia Ethica, and his essays, " The Refutation of Idealism ", " A Defence of Common Sense ", and " A Proof of the External World ".

In his 1925 essay " A Defence of Common Sense ", he argued against idealism and scepticism toward the external world on the grounds that they could not give reasons to accept their metaphysical premises that were more plausible than the reasons we have to accept the common sense claims about our knowledge of the world that sceptics and idealists must deny.

* G. E. Moore, A Defence of Common Sense ( 1925 )

* Common Sense about the War ( 1914 )

Following the French committee's findings, in his Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind ( 1818 ), Dugald Stewart, an influential academic philosopher of the " Scottish School of Common Sense ", encouraged physicians to salvage elements of Mesmerism by replacing the supernatural theory of " animal magnetism " with a new interpretation based upon " common sense " laws of physiology and psychology.

In Braid's day, the Scottish School of Common Sense provided the dominant theories of academic psychology and Braid refers to other philosophers within this tradition throughout his writings.

* 1776 – Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense.

* Leadership Is Common Sense by Herman Cain ( ISBN 9781930819023, Tapestry Press, 2001 )

On Two Wings: Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American Founding.

* A Defence of Common Sense

* The Time of Our Lives: The Ethics of Common Sense ( 1970 )

* The Common Sense of Politics ( 1971 )

Everyman Revived: The Common Sense of Michael Polanyi.

For example, one verse, titled Common Sense, asks:

* Thomas Paine: Enlightenment writer who defended liberal democracy, the American Revolution, and French Revolution in Common Sense and The Rights of Man.

Thomas Reid, the eighteenth-century founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense, realised that sensation was composed of a set of data transfers but declared that there is still a direct connection between perception and the world.

In addition, the widely distributed and popularly read-aloud tract Common Sense, by Thomas Paine, succinctly and eloquently laid out the case for republican ideals and independence to the larger public.

It is, indeed, the cardinal weakness of this form of intuitionism that no satisfactory list can be given and that no moral principles have the " constant and never-failing entity ," or the definiteness, of the concepts of geometry ( these attacks are not uncontested — see, for example, the " Common Sense " tradition from Thomas Reid to James McCosh and the Oxford Realists Harold Prichard and Sir William David Ross ).

* Thomas Paine ( 1737 – 1809 ) English / American pamphleteer, most famous for Common Sense ( 1776 ) calling for American independence as the most rational solution

Philosopher who developed Common Sense Realism.

Authoritative and scholarly edition containing Common Sense, the essays comprising the American Crisis series, Rights of Man, The Age of Reason, Agrarian Justice, and selected briefer writings, with authoritative texts and careful annotation.

* " Common Sense: The Rhetoric of Popular Democracy " lesson plan for grades 9-12 from National Endowment for the Humanities

He presented an account of his proposal in Common Sense: A New Constitution for Britain.

On 12 October 2011 the Commission presented a set of legal proposals to reform the Common Agricultural Policy ( CAP ) after 2013.

Common tools include debugging aids and other utilities often presented in an integrated development environment ( IDE ).

For comparison, a translation into Pennsylvania German, using two different spelling systems, of the Lord's Prayer, as found in the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, is presented below.

" This supports the hypothesis that Common Ravens are ' inventors '; that is, they have the ability to solve problems presented to them.

In 1958, Sarah Caldwell and Linda Cabot Black, among others, started the Opera Company of Boston with just $ 5, 000, beginning with a production of Jacques Offenbach's Voyage to the Moon that was presented on Boston Common with a cast that included Adelaide Bishop as Queen Popotte.

Cisneros has also been author, editor or collaborator in several books, including Interwoven Destinies: Cities and the Nation, a project with the late former HUD Secretary Jack Kemp ; Opportunity and Progress: A Bipartisan Platform for National Housing Policy was presented the Common Purpose Award for demonstrating the potential of bipartisan cooperation ; and Casa y Comunidad: Latino Home and Neighborhood Design, a publication that took the first-ever look at the growing and increasingly prosperous U. S. Latino community and its housing needs, was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Silver Medal in the category of best business book of 2006.

Common traits of mondo films include emphasis on taboo subjects such as death and sex, portrayals of foreign cultures ( which have received subsequent accusations of racism ), and staged sequences presented as genuine documentary footage.

In the case of authorized services in Common Worship, the Archbishops ' Council gave some 800 parishes permission to use draft forms of service on an experimental basis before they were presented to the General Synod.

In February 1587, Sir Anthony Cope ( 1548 – 1614 ) presented to the Speaker a bill abrogating the existing ecclesiastical law, together with a Puritan revision of the Book of Common Prayer, and Wentworth supported him by bringing forward certain articles touching the liberties of the House of Commons ; Cope and Wentworth were both committed to the Tower for interference with Elizabeth I's ecclesiastical prerogative.

Common targets include the World Bank ( WB ), International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) and the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) and free trade treaties like the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ), Free Trade Area of the Americas ( FTAA ), the Multilateral Agreement on Investment ( MAI ) and the General Agreement on Trade in Services ( GATS ).

Instead of pursuing unilateral prerogatives, Brazilian foreign policy has tended to emphasize regional integration, first through the Southern Cone Common Market ( Mercosul ) and now the Union of South American Nations.

Aside from the American version and the newly-published Philippine Book of Common Prayer, the Filipino-Chinese of Saint Stephen's Pro-Cathedral in the Diocese of the Central Philippines uses the English-Chinese Diglot Book of Common Prayer, published by the Episcopal Church of Southeast Asia.

The Book of Common Prayer has also been translated into these North American indigenous languages: Cowitchan, Cree, Haida, Ntlakyapamuk, Slavey, Eskimo-Aleut, Dakota, Delaware, Mohawk, Ojibwe.

Common examples of character encoding systems include Morse code, the Baudot code, the American Standard Code for Information Interchange ( ASCII ) and Unicode.

By the American Revolution, most residents lived near the Common and Harvard College, with farms and estates comprising most of the town.

In 1775, George Washington came up from Virginia to take command of fledgling volunteer American soldiers camped on the Cambridge Common — today called the birthplace of the U. S. Army.

The Central American Common Market continued its dynamic reactivation process, now with most regional commerce duty-free.

El Salvador is a member of the United Nations and several of its specialized agencies, the Organization of American States ( OAS ), the Central American Common Market ( CACM ), the Central American Parliament ( PARLACEN ), and the Central American Integration System ( SICA ).

During the 1960s, industrial growth was stimulated by the establishment of the Central American Common Market ( CACM — see Appendix B ).

" Theologian and author Arthur A. Cohen, in The Myth of the Judeo-Christian Tradition, questioned the theological validity of the Judeo-Christian concept and suggested that it was essentially an invention of American politics, while Jacob Neusner, in Jews and Christians: The Myth of a Common Tradition, writes, " The two faiths stand for different people talking about different things to different people.

The Lesser Kestrel ( F. naumanni ), which much resembles a small Common Kestrel with no black on the upperside except wing and tail tips, is probably not very closely related to the present species, and the American Kestrel ( F. sparverius ) is apparently not a true kestrel at all.

The Labrador Duck was also known as a Pied Duck, a vernacular name that it shared with the Surf Scoter and the Common Goldeneye ( and even the American Oystercatcher ), a fact that has led to difficulties in interpreting old records of these species, and also as Skunk Duck.

Present-day translations have " morning star " ( New International Version, New Century Version, New American Standard Bible, Good News Translation, Holman Christian Standard Bible, Contemporary English Version, Common English Bible, Complete Jewish Bible ), " daystar " ( New Jerusalem Bible, English Standard Version, The Message ), " shining one " ( New Life Version ) or " shining star " ( New Living Translation ).

An Anglican Christian, she played a considerable part in the drafting of the 1979 American Episcopal Book of Common Prayer.

Whereas most American Methodist worship is modeled after the Anglican Communion's Book of Common Prayer, a unique feature was the once practiced observance of the season of Kingdomtide, which encompasses the last thirteen weeks before Advent, thus dividing the long season after Pentecost into two discrete segments.

However, congregations who strongly identify with their African American roots and tradition would not usually follow the Revised Common Lectionary.

* Central American Common Market ( CACM )