"Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence, which is common to all men."
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William Fleming
1791 – 1866
William Fleming (1791 – 1866) was a British philosopher, and Professor of Moral Philosophy at the , known from his 1857 Vocabulary of philosophy, mental, moral, and metaphysical.
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