id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_uagz3tszkrg6pcp33rmq6f33qy Hourya Benis Sinaceur Neurophilosophy of Number 2017 27 .pdf application/pdf 14816 1759 60 Indeed, from the point of view of neurosciences and cognitive1 sciences the question is: 'How do we extract numbers from our perceiving the surrounding world?'. Frege's views, since the answers to the question are based on the process of natural selection, the neurobiological architecture of the brain and the psychological operations of the sixth sense, the 'number sense', which provides animals and humans with a sensory perception of the 'numerosity' of the objects in a group or a collection. understand what cardinal numbers mean, that is to say we grasp without any calculation how big is the numerical size of objects and events: animals and babies discriminate between two different quantities (between one dot and two dots on a screen) and In the object-file model there is no explicit, no direct representation of number (Feigenson, Carey, and Hauser 2002; Carey 2009; Piazza et al. See also Harnad (1987), Neisser (1987), Medin (1989); Rips, Bloomfield, and ./cache/work_uagz3tszkrg6pcp33rmq6f33qy.pdf ./txt/work_uagz3tszkrg6pcp33rmq6f33qy.txt