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Re:The Pirahã are off by one (2020) by defrost on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @12:27AM (#33980302)
So .. if the world has 10 marbles we may only count to 10 ..?

This despite there being ( 10 x 9 ) groupings of pairs of those 10 marbles?

For any of those 90 pairs we can show a physical example of ( this marble, that marble ).

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Re:The Pirahã are off by one (2020) by xyzelement on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @08:44AM (#33983335)
Someone once said that whatever follows "So..." Is going to be a misrepresentation of what one said :)

In my comment I said "or whatever is the largest domain you think you can count". So in your example we still run out of physical stuff that can be counted (at 90) right?

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Re:The Pirahã are off by one (2020) by defrost on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @07:40PM (#33993233)
> whatever follows "So..." Is going to be a misrepresentation of what one said :)

> So in your example .. right?

Not at all, and it's pretty clear why :)

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