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  2. Thomas Paine - Wikipedia

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    Paine's attack on monarchy in Common Sense is essentially an attack on George III. Whereas colonial resentments were originally directed primarily against the king's ministers and Parliament, Paine laid the responsibility firmly at the king's door. Common Sense was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution. It was a clarion call ...

  3. Common sense - Wikipedia

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    The common sense is where this comparison happens, and this must occur by comparing impressions (or symbols or markers; σημεῖον, sēmeîon, 'sign, mark') of what the specialist senses have perceived. [16] The common sense is therefore also where a type of consciousness originates, "for it makes us aware of having sensations at all". And ...

  4. The American Crisis - Wikipedia

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    The Crisis series appeared in a range of publication formats, sometimes (as in the first four) as stand-alone pamphlets and sometimes in one or more newspapers. [9] In several cases, too, Paine addressed his writing to a particular audience, while in other cases he left his addressee unstated, writing implicitly to the American public (who were, of course, his actually intended audience at all ...

  5. Discourse - Wikipedia

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    In modernist theory, language and discourse are dissociated from power and ideology and instead conceptualized as "natural" products of common sense usage or progress. [9] Modernism further gave rise to the liberal discourses of rights, equality, freedom, and justice; however, this rhetoric masked substantive inequality and failed to account ...

  6. Glossary of rhetorical terms - Wikipedia

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    Phronesis – practical wisdom; common sense. Pistis – the elements to induce true judgment through enthymemes, hence to give proof of a statement. Pleonasm – the use of more words than necessary to express an idea. Polyptoton – the repetition of a word or root in different cases or inflections within the same sentence.

  7. Commonsense reasoning - Wikipedia

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    Some definitions and characterizations of common sense from different authors include: "Commonsense knowledge includes the basic facts about events (including actions) and their effects, facts about knowledge and how it is obtained, facts about beliefs and desires. It also includes the basic facts about material objects and their properties." [2]

  8. Irony - Wikipedia

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    Muecke writes, "the effectiveness of this kind of irony comes from its economy of means: mere common sense or even simple innocence or ignorance may suffice" to break through the targeted hypocrisy or foolishness of received ideas. [38] Dramatized irony is the simple presentation of ironic situations for the enjoyment of an audience.

  9. Word sense - Wikipedia

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    word-sense disambiguation – the task of automatically associating a sense with a word in context; lexical substitution – the task of replacing a word in context with a lexical substitute; sememe – unit of meaning; linguistics – the scientific study of language, which can be theoretical or applied. sense and reference