The ritual origin of counting

1962/08/01 by A. Seidenberg · 1 voice · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #African history and culture analysis #Ancient Egypt and Archaeology

paper · doi:10.1007/bf00325159

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Citations

• The Foundations of Arithmetic

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• Cities and Citadels

Discussions

• It is a fact, but not a fact having justification in some results of mathematical logic. There is a basic intuition of counting numbers, that is rooted in our language practices (see Wittgenstein 's l [stackexchange, 1 points]