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Phenomenology, Quantity, and Numerosity
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There are many situations in which we interact with collections of objects, from a crowd of people to a bowl of blackberries. There is an experience of the quantity of these items, although not a precise number, and we have this impression quickly and effortlessly. It can be described as an expressive property of the whole. In the literature, the study of this sense of numerosity has a long history, which is reviewed here with examples. I argue that numerosity is a direct perceptual experience, and that all experiences of numerosity, not only estimations, are affected by perceptual organisation.
Title: Phenomenology, Quantity, and Numerosity
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There are many situations in which we interact with collections of objects, from a crowd of people to a bowl of blackberries.
There is an experience of the quantity of these items, although not a precise number, and we have this impression quickly and effortlessly.
It can be described as an expressive property of the whole.
In the literature, the study of this sense of numerosity has a long history, which is reviewed here with examples.
I argue that numerosity is a direct perceptual experience, and that all experiences of numerosity, not only estimations, are affected by perceptual organisation.
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