Re: Only logic is necessary?

From: Bruno Marchal <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 14:09:55 +0200

Le 08-juil.-06, à 22:14, Brent Meeker a écrit :

> Cooper says that numbers "come from" the evolutionary advantage of
> being able to count.

But he clearly talk about Human's numbers. Numbers per se are what make
If "being able to count" an evolutionary advantage.

> Of course
> that doesn't explain where big numbers come from, or even whether they
> exist.

All right. Need some faith there ...

Bruno

http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/


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