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On 23 April 2011 13:00, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote: > Instances and types are both involved here, Huw. > In fact, any concept has individual, universal and particular moments. > Ok. And are are you happy that a type can be materially implemented, such as the notion of room temperature implemented in a thermostat, and that this type is not an action, but that it regulates an action? Huw > > Andy > > Huw Lloyd wrote: > >> >> >> On 23 April 2011 06:41, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net <mailto: >> ablunden@mira.net>> wrote: >> >> I'll leave Marx on commodity Fetishsm for the moment, Martin, and >> >> solely to make the point that I am not alone on this business of >> meaning as act. >> >> For example, V P Zinchenko's "Vygotsky's ideas about units for the >> analysis of mind', in Culture, Communication and cognition: >> >> Vygvotskyan Perspectives, ed J V Wertsch CUP 1985, pp. 94-118: >> >> “one can consider tool-mediated action as being very close to >> meaning as unit of analysis.” >> >> >> Quick question, Andy. Are you distinguishing instances and >> classifications? >> >> I can demonstrate a plan by executing it. I can refer to the execution as >> an example of my plan. But the execution in not a plan. >> >> Huw >> >> >> and Engestrom's "Learning by Expanding": >> >> “According to Vygotsky, the instrumentally mediated act ‘is the >> simplest segment of behavior that is dealt with by research based on >> elementary units’.” >> >> Andy >> >> > > __________________________________________ > _____ > 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