Ep166 - Eugenia Cheng | The Art of Logic
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The Abstrativity of Two in English
Tatenaton: I was struck right at the beginning, when you started talking about the abstraction of two, by the fact that that's maybe straightforward in english. And there are several languages where there are particles you put after the number to talk about one kind of it is. So they've got like, more levels of abstraction built into the language. Yes, does that change? Anything in practice, anything an implication in the process you're thinking about, i guess the child development aspects is waigt outside scope. Tatenaton: But i think at the level of two, there's still the concept of two. Then there's some, some other refinements of to ble
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