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Indulge me with an odd potential counter-point though.

What if human knowledge is fundamentally both more inductive and collectivist than we care to admit? After all, Hume's problem of induction (that deductive reasoning stems from induction) does seem to suggest this as a potential resolution.

Isn't understanding mostly a set of connections and relationships about a thing? I can use memorized/practiced knowledge of trig and calc to solve problems, sure, but just like the rat if I was born 4000 years ago I'd probably just struggle with the concept of negative numbers -- with near certainly I wouldn't be able to invent them to solve a maze either.

So I would argue that perhaps all knowledge and understanding seems to be fundamentally inductive, and is hard to conveive of with just a single person in isolation, same as a mouse. Large communities of people with millenia of progress, useful abstractions, and recorded insight though?

Perhpas understanding is scalable with communities and time, and thinking of understanding on the individual level of a mouse or a human is missing the forest for the trees?