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How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers? May 25, 2021 Everyone Has to Have Numbers… Don’t They? The aliens arrive in a starship. Surely, one might think, to have all that technology they must have the idea of numbers. Or maybe one finds an uncontacted tribe deep in the jungle. Surely they too must have the idea of numbers. To us numbers seem so natural and “obvious” that it’s hard to imagine everyone wouldn’t have them. But if one digs a little deeper, it’s not so clear. It’s said that there are human languages that have words for “one”, “a pair” and “many”, but no words for specific larger numbers. In our modern technological world that seems unthinkable. But imagine you’re out in the jungle, with your dogs. Each dog has particular characteristics, and most likely a particular name. Why should you ever think about them collectively, as all “just dogs”, amenable to being counted? ....