The difficult thing to grasp is that an evolutionary view the human capacity for procedures, protocols, defenses and objections which are distinctly logical in their character - this view is consistent with a certain realism. It is in a world in which certain mappings are preserved, in which certain relations of exckusion and inclusion hold, that this manner of taking the world evolves.
It is for this reason that Hume on induction is simply not relevant to the gorilla who next taps for the bottom of the pond expecting that the stick wills erve with this tap as it did with the last probe.
Understood as a distal instrument, the "walking stick" is used in conjunction with an unright locomotion and a hesitant gait with a horizon: the topisms here are all inherited from aeons of evolutionary failures, extinctions and reproductive successes.
The gorilla taps for an unseen ground: she has a confidence about her. She has left her child on the shore.
see: Bergson on plumbing a depth, in this Introduction to Metaphysics.
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