Introduction. As a basis for the philosophical identification of history, the article suggests ways and forms of solving the problem of complexity, which refers to the number of elements of a social system and the ways of communication between them. The type of complexity faced by modern humanity at the group and individual levels is characterized by the emergent nature of the events taking place, that is, the lack of the necessary causal connection between the whole and its constituent elements. The method of solving the problem of complexity practiced in traditional and modern society through its simplification using a reductive methodology is not applicable to emergent phenomena. Postmodernity considered complexity and uncertainty as its consequence to be a normal state and refused to search for stable forms of unity and integrity. Metamodernism is considered one of the contenders for the role of social metatheory, however, the ways proposed by its authors to solve the problem of emergent complexity remain within the framework of the postmodern model. The concept of "common sense", which is analyzed in this article, seems more promising.
