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Author: NemuruMaeNi

Dec 22nd 2014 at 10:53:16 PM

^ A metaphor. A lime is as sour as a lemon. How do you know? You take a certain human, who's able to taste things, you give that human a taste of lemon, lime, grapefruit, premium marrocan tangerine and some particularly nasty pickled cucumbers, then scrutinize that human's experience report in preestablished terms of sourness.

If you're keen on knowing the truth, your choice of that human is not random. You won't take a guy who's known for lying left and right. You won't take a kid who's allergic to citrus. You won't take a brain-damaged patient with communication disorders. You won't take a sly fox who could pretty much know that much money rides on this sourness assessment, if you strongly doubt she hasn't been approached by people from large lemon producing corporation and lime importing conglomerate. Etc., etc.

If your answer is you're going to dive into the trees' consciousness and extract the information how sour each of them ''meant to'' make their fruits,.. well, good luck to you.