Monday, February 13, 2017

Philosophy Wire: Knowing…


Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2017-02-13]: Spatial reasoning measured in infancy predicts how children do at math at four years of age, finds a new study. It provides the earliest documented evidence for a relationship between spatial reasoning and math ability. [1]

We learn math because we measure space.
But how can we measure?
How do we understand what “space” even is?
You can only know what you already know…

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