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>We inherently know that cardboard boxes don't move on their own.

No. We don’t. We learn that. We learn that boxes belong in the class “doesn’t move on its own”. In fact, later when you encounter cars, you relearn that these boxes do move on their own. We have to teach kids “don’t run out between the non-moving boxes because a moving one might hit you”. We learn when things seem out of place because we’ve learned what their place is.



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