Eleventh Meeting

Eleventh Meeting November 16th 1870

 

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Nov. 16th 1870
Meeting at Mr J T Brunner’s. Kaludah Terrace
Present. Messrs. J.T Brunner, Muspratt, Watts,
Mond, Raven, Carey & H Brunner.
Minutes of the last meeting read & passed.
Words proposed for definition
Common sense & Nonsense
Definitions proposed for Common sense.
Common sense is the faculty of taking logical
[xx] on the occurrences of daily life.
                                               Unversagt
Common sense is that power which enables us
to perceive as if by instinct between [xx] [such]
falsehood, cause & effect [x] & which enables its
possessor to adopt the best means of attaining
his end.                                    Nemo
Common sense is that faculty of perception
or apprehension of the [xxx] which is supposed
to be common to the human race.
                                              Gradatim
Common sense is the application of sense to the
affairs of daily life
                                             Palmam qui meruit ferat
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Common sense is sense displayed in common
things.                                                 Onward & upward
Common sense is active sense           Erin go bragh
Common sense is the faculty by which the truth
of common things is perceived          Paulatim
                           Majority definition.
Common sense is sense used in common things
Subscribed to by Erin go bragh, Paulatim, Palmam
qui meruit ferat, & Onward & upward
                           Minority definition
Common sense is that degree of sense possessed by
the majority of mankind
Subscribed to by Unversagt, Gradatim, Nemo.

                         ———————————————————
Definitions proposed for “Nonsense”
Nonsense is absence of sense                     Palmam qui..
Nonsense is sense perverted                       Erin go bragh
Nonsense is that which is obviously [xxx]
                                                                     Paulatim
Nonsense. Words which give incorrect or [xxx]
[xxx] ideas                                                  Nemo
Nonsense is that which is clearly opposed to sense
                                                                    Onward & upward.
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Nonsense is a conclusion of the mind which dis-
-plays the lack of correct reasoning on the data
furnished by the [apprehension] faculties.
                                                                   Gradatim
Nonsense is that which is contrary to the laws of
logic                                                          Unversagt
                      Majority definition
Nonsense is that which obviously fails to conform
to the laws of logic, Onward and Upward, Unversagt
Gradation, Nemo, Erin go bragh, Palmam qui..
                     Minority definition
Nonsense is that which is obviously [xxx]
conveys no meaning.                            Paulatim
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