The Sapir Whorf hypothesis (language defines what we can perceive and think) is mostly wrong for natural language, but true for programming. Computer languages don't differ in what they can do but in how they let us think.
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I'm not sure an inability to count past 2 actually displays a lack of numerosity. This paper, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1203.4141.pdf …, in the course of talking about Hilbert's first problem, demonstrates the effective equivalence of their counting system with ours:pic.twitter.com/ZKzoWh705y
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I recall reading that their quantity words roughly mean "lots" and "a few", not 1 and 2. Their apparent inability to tell apart 4 from 5 objects may indicate a possible difference in brain function, not just in language. It is a small, closely related population.
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