ABSTRACT
‘Commonsensibles’ are entities – like tables, chairs, flowers, and birds – that belong to our ordinary view of the world. Most contemporary philosophers – and ordinary people, for that matter – are realist about commonsensibles: if we know anything at all, surely we must know that tables and chairs exist. Commonsens-ibles are epistemically primary, in the sense that they constitute the basic build-ing blocks upon which all knowledge of the external (and, perhaps, internal) world is constructed. This does not mean that intuitions about commonsensibles are incorrigible of course. But the existence of commonsensibles seems to raise epistemic and ontological problems that are less urgent and complicated than those raised by the strange unobservable entities posited by the most advanced natural sciences.
