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The prehistory of number concept
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 34 (3):142-144 (2011)
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Carey leaves unaddressed an important evolutionary puzzle: In the absence of a numeral list, how could a concept of natural number ever have arisen in the first place? Here we suggest that the initial development of natural number must have bootstrapped on a material culture scaffold of some sort, and illustrate how this might have occurred using strings of beads.Author's Profile
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Enculturation and the historical origins of number words and concepts.César Frederico dos Santos - 2021 - Synthese 199 (3-4):9257-9287.
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Number Words and Number Symbols: A Cultural History of Numbers.Karl Menninger & Paul Broneer - 1971 - Philosophy East and West 21 (1):97-98.
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