Re: Epistemology 201: The Science of Science

From: robert j. kolker (nowhere_at_nowhere.net)
Date: 02/09/05 

Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 14:04:19 -0500

> People aren't animals and there are certainly animals that count.

1. We are animals. We eat, we bleed, we *** and we ***. Just like dogs
and cows.

2. Counting is not doing mathematics, it is naming. Yes. Crows can count
to 6 or so but they cannot generalize. They have not got the intelligence.

> Which raises the curious question whether they're counting countable
> infinities and doing modern math?

They are doing no such thing.

Bob Kolker

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