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The present paper takes as its starting point the most common metaphors used in natural language and the thought system behind it to approach the number sequence in a spatial and temporal context. The latter context being less dependent on completely external causal triggering, its cyclical perspective on number will be adopted as the cognitively more realistic option and presented in the well-known format of a Gaussian system of arithmetic commonly called clock arithmetic.
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Jaspers, D. (2020). A Mentalist Look at Gaussian Clock Arithmetic. In: Pietarinen, AV., Chapman, P., Bosveld-de Smet, L., Giardino, V., Corter, J., Linker, S. (eds) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Diagrams 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12169. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54249-8_6
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