no, I did not have the impression you were arguing with me, rather you seem
to have an excellent understanding of my attempts to strengthen the
relational character of mediating processes. It _is_ difficult, indeed. Of
course, there is something "there", ready in way to take the mediating role
or function, but my point is that it changes character entering the
relation, and differently so in the course of near replications. Think of
household settings of long standing, and slightyl supplemented and modified
over the years, which bring the people together in quite specific ways. So
what we have to investigate, I think, is histories of the relational
systems in their entirety. I believe they will lead us to more readily see
mediators in their dynamics. You will find the background of our ideas in
the Non-Cartesian artefacts paper published in LCHC-Newsletter in 1993. We
are now studying the dwelling process longitudinally,, to some extent.
Alfred
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