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Originally Posted by dissonance
Well, my whole point is that premises are hidden. So if you have the premise that water is H20 stored somewhere, then water is necessarily H20. See what I'm saying?
You start with a few premises genetically encoded. And you start with the genetic capability for metaphor. Then you build up a giant web of relations of premises through metaphor.
Meh, I'm too faded right now. I'll try to reword some of what I mean tomorrow.
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If our first premises are merely genetically encoded, then why should we trust them? Even if the premise "water is H2O" follows from our first premises by means of metaphor (and experience), how do we know our first premises lead to necessary truths? Or any truths at all--including the possible truth that our first premises are genetically encoded, or even that there are such things as first premises?