The what and how of counting

We correct a common misunderstanding of our so-called «abstraction principle» and, more importantly, to explain why we do not believe the domain-general model for the development of counting proposed by Shipley and Shepperson is a viable alternative to the kind of domain-specific model we have argued for

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