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On some concepts associated with finite cardinal numbers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2008

Harold T. Hodes
Harold T. Hodes
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Department of Philosophy, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853hth3@cornell.eduhttp://www.arts.cornell.edu/phil/people/faculty/?id=9/
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Abstract

I catalog several concepts associated with finite cardinals, and then invoke them to interpret and evaluate several passages in Rips et al.'s target article. Like the literature it discusses, the article seems overly quick to ascribe the possession of certain concepts to children (and of set-theoretic concepts to non-mathematicians).

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 6 , December 2008 , pp. 657 - 658
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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