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I'd argue that in practice everyone believes in everyday common sense - even philosophers who claim to follow some philosophy that's radically contradictory to it (in a similar sense to the economist's notion of "revealed preferences"). So someone who relies on a novel set of axioms is relying on a bigger and more dubious foundation than someone who's able to "Neurathian bootstrap" starting with just the everyday common sense that we are already all relying on.



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