Epistemology in many species

Col

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I have long had an intuitive liking of John Locke's statement "I have a hand" as innate knowledge, and sufficient reason for common sense. It occurs to me that rats to all intents and purposes have hands and cognition and that then much of the proof of apriori and a posteriori knowledge can more or less be applied to animals, at least all of the animals that are farmed.

In my understanding of 'common sense' this implies a commonality of consciousness,
This is something people seem to often associate with their friendships!
It is for me an understanding of the similarity of cognition and spiritual life - even if different not necessarily less spiritual as many animals have heightened sensory abilities in areas such as smell.