¶ Hand As Five
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Hand As Five:
“Most readily humans recognized and trusted one-and-one making two; or one-and-two making three; or two-and-two making four. But an unbounded loose set of 10 irregular and dissimilar somethings was not recognizable by numbers in one glance: it was a lot. Nor or five loose, irregular and dissimilar somethings recognizable in one glance as a number: it is a bunch. But a human hand is boundaried and finitely recognizable at a single glance as a hand, but not as a discrete number except by repetitively acquired confirmation and reflexive conditioning. Five is more recognizable as four fingers and a thumb; or even more readily recognizable as two end fingers (the little and the index), two fingers in the middle, and one thumb. (2 + 2 + 1 = 5).”
