innate common sense

They like to tout their innate “common sense”, which throughout history has been proven to be the worst kind of sense.

Is Sally really exhibiting some innate common sense here, knowing the older boy is a little too much for her, or does she just need to kiss someone and will try to make it with the older boy the next night?

Like much of engineering, there’s nothing terribly forbidding here as long as you tackle the little problems incrementally and cultivate your own innate common sense. 

If American history is any guide, the infectious dynamism and energy and innate common sense that defines this network of leaders, this Pragmatic Caucus, will ultimately prevail.

The language and the reasoning of the nostrum vender are not designed to appeal to the trained, educated mind, or to an individual possessing innate common sense.