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From the Vault: The Origins of Numeracy

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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What if I Don't Have a Word for Cat?

Without the word for cat, you can't engage in more complex uses of its basic catness. Could you imagine a cat human hybrid if you didn't have a word for cat? Did y having a word for these animals allow you to start mixing and matching them in a way that you wouldn't if you didn’t have the word? Yes? Doing thereomorphic arithmetic? Ye, i don't know. Just a weird idea. Now that i think about it, maybe i'm doubting that actually. Surely you could picture that witht well,  who knows what? Well, i'm doubters myself every which way. But also back to numbers, because i think

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