[lojban] Re: Piraha and SWH

["riderofgiraffes" <lojban@solipsys.co.uk>]

--- In lojban@yahoogroups.com, Zefram <lojban-out@l...> wrote: 
> ... the Piraha group of Amazonian Indians ...  
> ... words for "few" and "many", but not "one", "two", 
> or "three".  Piraha people turn out to be incapable 
> of the simplest counting tasks. They're unable to 
> distinguish between groups of four and five objects. 
> When asked to copy a group of identical objects, they 
> can't accurately reproduce any number higher than about 
> four.  It's an interesting case for the SWH. 
>  
> I can't find a copy of the article online, ... 
 
Try 
 
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996303 



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