ABSTRACT

From a theoretical and philosophical point of view, communication does not have a unique model, or no unique model can be made for communication processes, but has regimes that are epochal instantiations of its coming-into-being. A model of communication seeks to show the main elements of any structure or process of human social action and the relations between these elements, plus any flow or exchange that takes place. Common sense is a form, a method, a technic and a model. Metaphysics, and its correlate, common sense, supersedes all questions about knowledge, its causes, rules and structures and works as a drive to enquiry or, simultaneously, as an obstacle to any theoretical approach–which is by nature conducted through drive and self-inspection. Common sense is made out of complex structures–of social, cognitive processes or innate forms of recognition that belong to all humankind; this resembles Aristotle’s definition of koine aesthesis, which is not the case for David Hume.