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Sure. There are uncountably many real numbers, but at most countably many names.
Aren't numbers names?
Nope. It is possible to uniquely define some numbers, and the definitions can be said to constitute names for the numbers they define, but the definitions/names aren't the numbers. Numbers have a mathematical pre-existence in set theory that does not rely on them being nameable.
Do bees and ants have a mathematical dictionary in their heads that allows them to build in sided shapes, and to measure distances?
Do bees and ants perceive numbers as we do?
Do bees and ants have a mathematical dictionary in their heads that allows them to build in sided shapes, and to measure distances?
They have something. A sense of angle and time in the case of bees. I don't know about ants. But I doubt it is anything like our sense of mathematics.
If math, like the ten commandments, are part of our hardware, then perhaps different species have some inkling of them, too. Or can grasp certain aspects.
Edward O. Wilson claims that ants and bees are the same bug, but bees have wings. They diverged a few million years ago.
If you look at a carpenter ant up close it has yellow stripes like the yellow stripes of a bee.
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