Re:Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science
by tgv on Sunday October 30, 2022 @02:14PM
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We don't communicate in maths.
About that nautilus article: it shows no evidence. Not only that, 10 years ago or so, there were articles about a newly discovered tribe that showed they didn't have a sense of quantity. Now, that can be due to a genetic difference, but it's more likely that it's language that allows us to teach quantity. If we have a native sense of quantity, it certainly doesn't go beyond 20, which is far too little to be the basis of mathematical thinking on its own.
About that nautilus article: it shows no evidence. Not only that, 10 years ago or so, there were articles about a newly discovered tribe that showed they didn't have a sense of quantity. Now, that can be due to a genetic difference, but it's more likely that it's language that allows us to teach quantity. If we have a native sense of quantity, it certainly doesn't go beyond 20, which is far too little to be the basis of mathematical thinking on its own.