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Eric, I don't know, I think LSV makes it pretty clear that word-meaning is not the concept. He criticizes Ach, who: "identifies concept and word meaning, and thus precludes any possibility of change and development in concepts" (T&S chapter 6, para 16). Martin On Apr 20, 2011, at 12:57 PM, ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org wrote: > Huw: > > Please explain to me how someone can "wield a concept"? I am not even > sure about the expression "grasp a concept". When there is a word that is > generalized to the extent of; hmmm....let's pick moon; it is not a > decisive tool of distinction but rather, as LSV points out, "word meaning > is the elementary cell that cannot be further analyzed. . . it is the > unity between thought and word" We cannot say that our earth has THE > moon. But in conversation we can state, "The moon is out and bright > tonight." I can provide a crowd with my moon but perhaps get arrested and > a smiling cherub of a child could display their moon of a face. IMHO > moon's word meaning is the concept present in these thoughts and words. > Not something weilded or grasped but perhaps active? > > what do other's think? bill blanton or bill borowy out there? > > eric > > > > From: Huw Lloyd <huw.softdesigns@gmail.com> > To: lchcmike@gmail.com, "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" > <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu> > Date: 04/20/2011 12:32 PM > Subject: Re: [xmca] activity (was concepts) > Sent by: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu > > > > On 20 April 2011 10:43, mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I appreciate all the thoughtful good will going into the attempts to > find >> common grounding and explore one's own thinking in this/these >> thread/threads. >> >> I fear i violated Tony's reasonable 2 cents rule because I, too, have > had >> too little time to write and the intermixing of pieces of threads and > thus >> added to the difficulties. >> >> I believe that Andy identified one problem when he pointed out that Huw, >> coming from a somewhat different (and relevant!) tradition(s) introduced >> concepts such as activity as he understood them from, say, Maturana or >> Bateson. So, for example, he pointed to Jim Wertsch's *Mind as Action* > as a >> source for explication of the concept of activity using the pole > vaulting >> example. > > > Kind of. I'm saying mediation and activity go together. In, for example, > the scheme Wertsch provides (p204, VATSFOM): > > Activity -- Motive > Action -- Goal > Operation -- Conditions. > > A good place, it seems, to locate the use of concepts (i.e. those things > gained during dual stimulation experiments) is in the regulation of > Action. > > However, I'd say that the concept used influences the dynamics, as it can > change the situation. > > Consider this simplified account. A man is queuing at a supermarket. He > only has 10 dollars (or some other currency), yet he needs the food to > feed > his family. He's got a number of items, all of which he needs, though > they > might tally up to more than 10 dollars. Let's say they add up to 9.99. If > he can confidently do the math and has done so, his whole experience will > be > different to the circumstances he'd be in if he found those kind of > conceptual operations difficult. He wields these concepts in the act of > doing the math (the concepts mediate this act). But these circumstances > will also mediate his activity as a whole as they influence his > understanding. > > Huw > > > >> But, Jim uses this example to talk about mediated action in >> context, his preferred unit of analysis at the time (at the end of >> *Vygotsky >> and the Social Formation of mind-*- which you can find whole on the >> internet >> but not download- he DOES discuss notions of activity following LSV). >> > __________________________________________ > _____ > 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 __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca