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Title: What is common sense thinking?

Abstract: Common sense thinking includes a certain collection of 
knowledge and certain reasoning ability.  Expert knowledge
including scientific knowledge fits into the framework provided
by common sense.  Common sense knowledge includes facts about
the consequences of actions in the physical and psychological
worlds, facts about the properties of space, time, causality
and physical and social objects.  Common sense reasoning includes
both logical deductive and various kinds of non-monotonic reasoning.
Much common sense knowledge is not readily expressible in words,
and much that can be usually isn't.

	The lecture will attempt to survey common sense knowledge
and common sense reasoning.  It will be oriented toward expressing
the knowledge in languages of mathematical logic and expressing
the reasoning as deduction plus formal non-monotonic reasoning.