Two members have invoked "common sense" above. The common-sense philosophers of the Scottish school - including Thomas Reid, Dugald Stewart, James Beattie, George Campbell, and James Oswald - argued against George Berkeley and David Hume that ordinary human perception and moral judgment need not be defended against sceptical inquiry but ought to be taken as self-evident. As Campbell put it, "to maintain propositions the reverse of the primary truths of common sense, doth not imply a contradiction, it only implies insanity" (The Philosophy of Rhetoric, 1776). But the common-sense school was criticized by Immanuel Kant for its "appeal to the opinion of the multitude" (Prolegomena, 1783), while in his Critique of Judgment (1790) he distinguished between "sensus communis," considered as an idea of a comparative sense, and "common human understanding," which includes qualities exhibited by all normal human reason. Joseph Priestley wrote in his "examination" of Reid, Beattie, and Oswald (1774) that common sense is only for persons of "middling" capacities.

Indeed one difficulty with the idea of common sense is the variety of meanings attached to it even by thinkers in close geographical and historical proximity.

Since we ourself are like Kant almost entirely devoid on principle of common sense finding the idea provocative even we are not sure what if anything members wish us now to do. It is a frightful fag to trawl back through all those compounded and conflicting errors again and again and we would now much rather do nothing.

If though there is something further a particular member wishes us to do, we ask him or her to state it clearly here in this thread. We shall then let it lie here for twenty-four hours in case other members have objections or other possibly incompatible requests, and after the expiry of that period without objection etc. we shall act upon the request which is to say do it.

Let it be noted finally that Buddhism is almost totally opposed to common-sense philosophy.

Thank you for even considering such a move.  I an quite happy not to receive a huge bonus.  I am acutely aware that a very small minority of my points have actually been gained from identifying pieces, I ould not really like that imbalance to to artificially inflated!

Mr 1780

Oh Bless IGI, I knew me Carpentier, but if I am do be chastised, so be it.

So Esteemed Sydney I posted 327 when, erroneously, I should have posted 325 but I was caught up in the mayhem of the Rugby at the time, and my mind was wandering like Natalie Merchant

A memorable feat, indeed, Mr Sudden, made moreso by the fact that we tossed up those particular deliveries....!! 

I should suggest - in order to remove the complexity and inconvenience of needing to cross-reference the two threads - that Mr Grew consider the following methodology:

a) introduce on the 'Test' thread a further category of posting: a stated 'RESERVATION FOR PUZZLE NO. X'

b) an understood permission for that poster then to edit this message with the appropriate Puzzle number entered for access

c) the introduction of a further points penalty: if the person who reserved a posting for the purpose of later inserting the actual puzzle fails to do so within 1 hour then he/she automatically loses 500 points.

Baz

Could you please tell me where these 'play options' are, IGI? I can import a whole track into iTunes but not cut it down to about a minute. For that, I have been using something called Sound Studio (which came with the Mac). But that cannot save files in mp3 format, so I then import it into iTunes to do the necessary conversion. It would be more convenient just to use iTunes, though.

Right click over the track concerned, Tony, then click the 'Options' tab, then you can adjust the start and stop times. 

Regarding Puzzle 342. I wonder if the dates offered by SCGrew were not those of the first public performances of the respective quartets? The dates of composition given by Emile Wennekes are 1912, 1917, 1918, 1923, 1927 and 1928. Paul Hindemith and his viola participated in the premiers of the second and fourth  quartets.