Thought is proper to every person, unlike specialized scientific skills.

Evidence

It is easier for them to commune with steeples, radio masts, birds and airplanes than with the foreshortened humans at street level. … Around them is the constant susurration of human voices, the bewilderment on human faces, fragments of trouble, pain and delight half grasped, understood with a superior knowledge but never with a human knowledge. They long for this knowledge, as children long to exchange their own mental world for the brutal insights of adulthood. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 355 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: All humans are philosophers; experts differ only in quantitative rigor.; Every person sustains or modifies a conception of the world.; Every people’s thinking and acting rests on an underlying philosophy (+1 more)

Related

• Perfect knowing is no substitute for embodied human experience. (similarity 0.86)

Broader Connections

• Every person sustains or modifies a conception of the world. #corroborates (0.80)
• Every people’s thinking and acting rests on an underlying philosophy #corroborates (0.80)
• Perfect knowing is no substitute for embodied human experience. #expands (0.75) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 355