For instance, most of us tend to agree that lying is usually a bad thing, and yet most people lie on average ten times a day (according to shrinks), usually out of polite humbug. "Oh, you're looking well today!" ... that sort of thing.
"Allow me to introduce myself to you, mademoiselle, I am Randolllllllllphe, Marquis de Tildé and First Lord Viscount du Monde," (followed by a bow with a flourish).
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Sadly, yes. :( Let us write our requiems for the world's species. Let us cherish life while we still can, and let us be as loving towards one another as possible, while we still can.
That question is not accurate. You are presupposing suppositions that are not true.
More plainly put? Check your premises, you will find that one or both of them are wrong.
There is NO THING that everyone knows. We got some real dummies down here.
Next premise...
well, besides the bad grammar worse than mine here, I guess I cannot pick that one apart except for the fact that premise B relies on premise A, and therefore is moot.
The closest thing I can support your question by answering, is probably that I am the smartest person on here and everyone knows that but won't admit it. And I am the funniest.
I think when we make generalisations, we are intelligent enough to recognise the natural and usual limitations of all generalisations. The alternative would be to frame the question in exact and literal language, something like as follows; What is something that most normally intelligent (IQ 100 or above) adults in Western cultures knows (meaning not assumes, but has plenty of tangible evidence for), but which these same people don't like to admit?
Yes, I think that's probably true. Even the most conscientiously open-minded of us probably make assumptions about others based on no evidence and don't recognise it as it happens until evidence shows the error.
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