PSYCHOLOGY AND COMMON-SENSE

The authors deal with common sense and its part in scientific psycholo gy. Common sense is defined as a network or basic logic relations enco ded in language and shared by all competent users of a particular lang uage. The authors point out the fact that common sense is not realized and purposefully used in psychology. Very often, psychologists verify hypotheses for acknowledgement of which a judgement is frequently suf ficient and conclusions of which are included in generally shared comm on sense. This tendency is documented by several well-known theories. At their analysis, common sense is used as methodological means of pro ving the pseudo-empiricity of these approaches. Both in theoretical an d applied psychology, its reflection results in the more precisely def ined formulation of hypotheses. The authors simultaneously stress the fact that common sense cannot be used as an all-explaining principle f or all spheres of psychology.