The SEC is overrated.
blasphemer.
We’re all going to die.
Some variant of “gravity” was my first thought, too: I was thinking, “If you jump straight up, you’ll come back down, unless there’s something wonky going on.”
But there are a ton of other little things: it’s colder at night than in the day, water is nice on your tongue when you’re thirsty, it hurts when you stub your toe, etc. Assuming we’re excluding folks with profound brain damage from discussion, and also excluding pre-lingual children, there are a lot of similar things that are known even by folks with other severe handicaps (even someone born without legs will know by the time they’re ten that other folks feel pain when they stub their toes).
Don’t wear white after Labor Day.
Some people can’t feel heat.
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded.
Or so I’ve heard.
Everybody knows the good guys lost.
On everything else, I think that maybe one can find some pathology such that there are people who don’t in any real sense ‘know’ something—the ‘things fall down’ thing wouldn’t be known by somebody suffering from akinetopsia, the inability to perceive motion, for instance; people suffering from prosopagnosia can’t recognise human faces; people suffering from the Cotard delusion may believe that they don’t exist. In general, whatever you can think of, there’s probably some type of agnosia such that the relevant knowledge is absent in some people.
So I’d say that we probably best specialise to physiologically and behaviourally normal persons, in which case, I’d submit object permanence—the knowledge that things continue to exist even if they can’t be seen anymore. It’s present in human infants from about 4-8 months on. Even earlier is face recognition: I just learned from that wiki article that infants as young as 7 minutes prefer to look at faces, indicating that they at least know those are somehow special.
pain hurts
every girl crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man.
No, there are languages still in use today that have words for one, two, and many – no names for any other numbers. Also colors – the world of languages is divided into those which differentiate green from blue, and those that don’t, which are called “grue languages”, and curiously, also differ from each other in other broad linguistic respects. So even color is not “universally known” in the way that we are accustomed to regarding it.
But “one, two, many” is still counting albeit of a rudimentary manner.
Boys have a penis and girls have a vagina.
Kindergarten Cop is a great movie.
*Ambiguous external genitalia is a thing.
*Kindergarten Cop has a 51% on Rotten Tomatoes.
I thought it was “a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.”
I must have read a different version of the book.
Well, we’ve found where all the literature geeks hang out on SDMB…
I can attest that is something that young children have to learn.
Stoves, in particular.
That it’s not a tumah!
Could someone explain the “all men…” reference.
Disco Still Sucks