common sense
noun
sound practical judgment that is independent of specialized knowledge, training, or the like; normal native intelligence.
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MacLeish commonsensically concludes that any word is both sign and sound, and that a poet who ignores either tends to get as far out as James Joyce did, fictionally, in Finnegans Wake.
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