@ndvirons @Uair @chevalier26 @actuallyautistic Decades ago, it was discovered that six month old babies, who can't do math and don't have language to speak of, recognize that three tones equals three dots.

Noam Chomsky's 'black box' theory, that we have the capacity to learn language, includes math - 'how many' is part of language.

Try to describe this picture without using 'math words' and all you can do is say 'cookie' six times:

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Unless you're English, and then you say "biscuit" 6 times, because English people use the wrong words for things.

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