What Is a Free Throw?

What a particular human being believes is going on all around them is not necessarily connected with what's actually going on around them. We can see countless examples of this throughout history. If you lived two thousand years ago as a platonist, you might have had an essentialist perception of your world. The essence of what you are is that you are a rational animal navigating the universe of plato's timaeus. To explain to somebody what a free throw was in a basketball game, for you to ever be able to explain to them what a freethrow was, they would first have to know tons of other things related to it.