> On 25 Oct 2018, at 19:46, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 10/25/2018 9:03 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> Now, when you say that there was no mathematics before writing, I am not >> sure. I think the incas have developed ways to compute (notably the position >> of the star in the sky) before writing. I think that arithmetic precede >> thought which precedes languages, and I can identify machines, words, >> numbers, finitely-describale-thing, as opposed to the meaning which are >> usually infinite, but will belong to the machines/numbers mind. > > People counted on their body parts, joints, fingers, etc long before there > was writing. They're called “digits" > for a reason.
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