Common Sense philosophy
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Common Sense philosophy is a Scottish Enlightenment school of thought that grounds knowledge and belief in the self-evident truths and everyday intuitions shared by ordinary people.
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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12261332 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Common Sense philosophy Context triple: [Sir William Hamilton, philosophicalSchool, Common Sense philosophy]
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Enlightenment rationalism
Enlightenment rationalism is an intellectual movement that emphasized reason, individual rights, and secular inquiry as the primary means for understanding and improving society.
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Enlightenment philosophy
Enlightenment philosophy was an 18th-century intellectual movement emphasizing reason, individual rights, empirical inquiry, and skepticism of traditional authority in politics, religion, and society.
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Rationalism
Rationalism is a philosophical doctrine that emphasizes reason and logical deduction as the primary sources of knowledge and justification, often in contrast to empiricism’s focus on sensory experience.
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Humanism
Humanism is an intellectual and cultural movement that emphasizes the value, agency, and rational capacities of human beings, drawing inspiration from classical antiquity and focusing on secular learning and individual potential.
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Common Sense
Common Sense is a 1776 political pamphlet by Thomas Paine that powerfully argued for American independence from Britain and helped galvanize colonial support for the Revolutionary War.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Common Sense philosophy Target entity description: Common Sense philosophy is a Scottish Enlightenment school of thought that grounds knowledge and belief in the self-evident truths and everyday intuitions shared by ordinary people.
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A.
Enlightenment rationalism
Enlightenment rationalism is an intellectual movement that emphasized reason, individual rights, and secular inquiry as the primary means for understanding and improving society.
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B.
Enlightenment philosophy
Enlightenment philosophy was an 18th-century intellectual movement emphasizing reason, individual rights, empirical inquiry, and skepticism of traditional authority in politics, religion, and society.
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C.
Rationalism
Rationalism is a philosophical doctrine that emphasizes reason and logical deduction as the primary sources of knowledge and justification, often in contrast to empiricism’s focus on sensory experience.
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D.
Humanism
Humanism is an intellectual and cultural movement that emphasizes the value, agency, and rational capacities of human beings, drawing inspiration from classical antiquity and focusing on secular learning and individual potential.
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E.
Common Sense
Common Sense is a 1776 political pamphlet by Thomas Paine that powerfully argued for American independence from Britain and helped galvanize colonial support for the Revolutionary War.
- F. None of above. chosen
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