Behavioral and Brain Sciences
- Behavioral and Brain Sciences / Volume 31 / Issue 06 / December 2008, pp 659-659
- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X0800575X (About DOI), Published online: 11 December 2008
Open Peer Commentary
Why cardinalities are the “natural” natural numbers
Mathieu Le Correa1
a1 Psychology Department, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada. tieucorre@gmail.com
Abstract
According to Rips et al., numerical cognition develops out of two independent sets of cognitive primitives – one that supports enumeration, and one that supports arithmetic and the concepts of natural numbers. I argue against this proposal because it incorrectly predicts that natural number concepts could develop without prior knowledge of enumeration.
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