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You have 'em or you don't.
> Owing money as an example of negative coins, has a conceptual
> precipice for them, at times, I think
precipice?
bc
>>About negative work: in the world of the accounts clerk, a debit
>>in one column is the credit in the other with an opposite sign.
>>I fancy the student has a more concrete conception of coinage,
>>for example.
>> You have 'em or you don't.
>> Owing money as an example of negative coins, has a conceptual
>>precipice for them, at times, I think.
>>
>>
>>
>The experts on Piaget's cognitive theory might have some ideas about this.
>
>Thanks for all the comments.
>
>Hugh Logan