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On 27 May 2012 18:46, Larry Purss <lpscholar2@gmail.com> wrote: > Christine [and others] > I'm in over my head with this question and was hoping with the right > question to further the conversation and thereby expand my understanding of > *aesthetic reaction* as a concept. > This term for Vygotsky seemed to be central to his elaboration of a > *method* of analysis that he then applied to concept development. This > method was exploring the *essence of a phenomena. > > The article Christine recommended from the site *Stanford Encyclopedia of > Philosophy* [p 8] has this statement: > > For Wittgenstein complexity, and not reduction to UITARY ESSENCE, is the > route to conceptual clarification. Reduction to a simplified MODEL by > contrast, yields only the illusion of clarification in the form of > conceptual incarceration ( a picture held us captive) > > As I mentioned I'm in over my head. > Perhaps you're upside down? Complexity is the norm. The simplified model only aligns under certain circumstances which are special cases of complexity. Huw > > Larry > __________________________________________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca