Number nativism.
Number Nativism is the view that humans innately represent precise natural numbers. Despite a long and venerable history, it is often considered hopelessly out of touch with the empirical record. I argue that this is a mistake. After clarifying Number Nativism and distancing it from related conjectu...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy & Phenomenological Research Vol. 110; no. 1; pp. 226 - 253 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jan2025
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