"Citizens of a modern society need [...] more than that ordinary "common sense" which was defined by Stuart Chase as that which tells you that the world is flat."
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Stuart Chase in S. I. Hayakawa (1949) Language in Thought and Action. p. 29-30
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Stuart Chase
1888 – 1985
Stuart Chase (1888–1985) was an American economist and engineer trained at MIT.
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