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	<title>Comments on: Abstraction and the Details</title>
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		<title>By: Nicholas Gruen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Nicholas Gruen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tracey,

I appreciate your point.  The idea of &#039;commonsense&#039; sounds like propaganda. And feedback is a pretty important thing as well - perhaps the thing that conditions commonsense on the ground.  But I guess, having tried not to use &#039;commonsense&#039; I ended up stuck with it - I&#039;ve not been able to find a substitute. But of course that&#039;s a commonsense conditioned by some close familiarity with the detail, rather than something that is imposed from some higher vantage point.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>Tracey,</p>

	<p>I appreciate your point.  The idea of &#8216;commonsense&#8217; sounds like propaganda. And feedback is a pretty important thing as well &#8211; perhaps the thing that conditions commonsense on the ground.  But I guess, having tried not to use &#8216;commonsense&#8217; I ended up stuck with it &#8211; I&#8217;ve not been able to find a substitute. But of course that&#8217;s a commonsense conditioned by some close familiarity with the detail, rather than something that is imposed from some higher vantage point.</p>
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		<title>By: Tracy W</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tracy W</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The older I get, the more and more I learn the details matter. 

Although I think feedback is far more important than common sense. A lot of things don&#039;t act according to common sense, and common sense is rather uncommon - I know I lack it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>The older I get, the more and more I learn the details matter.</p>

	<p>Although I think feedback is far more important than common sense. A lot of things don&#8217;t act according to common sense, and common sense is rather uncommon &#8211; I know I lack it.</p>
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