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Do we need to grow up in a human community in order to develop ways of knowing, or are we born “hard wired” to be able to use them? Is community more important in some ways of knowing than others?
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Do we need to grow up in a human community in order to develop ways of knowing? Sense perception, language, reason and emotion) Or are we born "hard wired" to be able to use them? Is community more important in some ways of knowing than others? Man is a social being, so it is very difficult to claim to be sure about the development of the ways of knowing in a completely detached from society human being, given that, since the beginning, technical problems arise within fields such as psychology as, according to the evidence of the US National Science Foundation, "humans have a more prolonged period of infant dependency than other species", and in order to survive, need their mother until the age of 10. This means that if the mother is not present, the baby dies, and if the mother is present, it therefore means that through the mother's...
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