Numbers were a late invention.


	Numbers were a late invention.

balthazarus

7-20-2008 6:51 AM

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balthazarus says:

a very interesting read.
i will do another clip with a short movie.

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language perceive exact quantities? The <A name=hit2></A><A href="#hit1"><IMG 
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alt="next term" src="http://www.sciencedirect.com/scidirimg/sci_dir/nextterm.gif" width=7 border=0></A> are 
an Amazonian tribe who have been previously studied for their limited numerical 
system </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T24-4SR081F-2&_user=10&_coverDate=06%2F10%2F2008&_alid=768677721&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_cdi=4908&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_ct=1&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=7155037d5e52a724aec6cb9fe317b22c">We show that the <A name=hit3></A><A href="#hit2"><IMG title="previous term" 
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border=0></A> have no linguistic method whatsoever for expressing exact 
quantity, not even “one.” Despite this lack, when retested on the matching tasks 
used by Gordon, <A name=hit4></A><A href="#hit3"><IMG title="previous term" 
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objects perfectly but, as previously reported, they were inaccurate on matching 
tasks involving memory. These results suggest that language for exact number is 
a cultural invention rather than a linguistic universal, and that number words 
do not change our underlying representations of number but instead are a 
cognitive technology for keeping track of the cardinality of large sets across 
time, space, and changes in modality.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/862583DD-9919-4410-BFF9-2813A4099A28/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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