How Fraiser Reveals the Way to Connect to the Common People
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So many people talk about the idea of the common person. They talk about it as if it's a concrete concept that everyone agrees. After all, it wouldn't be common if it wasn't something many people understand. It has to be widely viewed as true for it to be referenced as such. However, if you actually talk with people, you often find that different people have different ideas about what they understand to be a common person. There are all kinds of ways in which people don't think something is common whereas others think it is. Which makes the idea of commonality kinda suspicious when you consider it in that context. If so many people have such an uncommon understanding of what common is, how do we come to know what is or isn't true at all?
How Fraiser Reveals the Way to Connect to the Common People
How Fraiser Reveals the Way to Connect to the…
How Fraiser Reveals the Way to Connect to the Common People
So many people talk about the idea of the common person. They talk about it as if it's a concrete concept that everyone agrees. After all, it wouldn't be common if it wasn't something many people understand. It has to be widely viewed as true for it to be referenced as such. However, if you actually talk with people, you often find that different people have different ideas about what they understand to be a common person. There are all kinds of ways in which people don't think something is common whereas others think it is. Which makes the idea of commonality kinda suspicious when you consider it in that context. If so many people have such an uncommon understanding of what common is, how do we come to know what is or isn't true at all?