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Comment author: fubarobfusco 06 August 2012 09:39:18PM 3 points [-]

"Intuition and common sense" sound more like styles of thought process, not models. The models in question might be called "folklore" and "ordinary language" — when thinking "intuitively" with "common sense", we expect the world to fit neatly into the categories of ordinary language, and for events to work out in the way that we would find plausible as a story.