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Language, procedures, and the non-perceptual origin of number word meanings
2017
Journal of Child Language
Perceptual representations of objects and approximate magnitudes are often invoked as building blocks that children combine to acquire the positive integers. Systems of numerical perception are either assumed to contain the logical foundations of arithmetic innately, or to supply the basis for their induction. I propose an alternative to this framework, and argue that the integers are not learned from perceptual systems, but arise to explain perception. Using cross-linguistic and developmental
doi:10.1017/s0305000917000058
pmid:28376934
fatcat:zzvhb2ljbjaxpdpy7e6dgvippa