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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">M.-L.
Lessing</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:marless@gmx.de">marless@gmx.de</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Language programming" 2009.01.15
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<p class="MsoNormal">Mark, I still doubt whether mother duck recognizes each one
out of her 10 ducklings by *character* or *face*. I can well imagine that where
a sense of number in animals is essential, it might be provided by nature. And
just consider this <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14569-elephants-master-basic-mathematics.html" target="_blank">http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14569-elephants-master-basic-mathematics.html</a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal">But we may to drop the animal thing, the
human-brain-formatting-or-programming matter is much more interesting :-)</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hartlich</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Marlou</p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">From: Mark Dreyer <</span><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="mailto:mrdreyer@lantic.net" target="_blank">mrdreyer@lantic.net</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">></span></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
Subject: LL-L "Language programming" 2009.01.14 (06) [E]</span></span></div>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Nevertheless, you are dead
right to point out that a mother-duck or cat knows if one of her
offspring is missing. This isn't evidence of a duck or a cat having a sense of
number. It is evidence of a sense of recognition. In the same way you
miss an invited guest at a cocktail-party because you don't see his face. it
isn't necessary or to the point to count the other guests.<br>
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Yrs,</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Mark</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
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