Several empiricists, including Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume, and others, thought that common sense was a fundamental tool for making philosophical judgments, which they considered could never be justified logically. The appeal of British empiricism lies in common sense. One could derive its roots from William of Ockham’s reduction of unnecessary prepositions or Bacon’s scientific methods. In Locke’s works as well, one could repeatedly find the statement of ‘the plain facts of the matter’
Hume suggested that reasoning can oftentimes lead us to absurd conclusions and we must refer to experience to make judgments. In conclusion, common sense is what marks the difference between the absurdity of our reasoning and the likelihood of events from our experience. In that sense, Hume found all things supernatural and ‘miraculous’ to be a farce because they contradict our experience thus far and the probability of our senses being decided or such an account being false is much more than a miracle existing.
