My question would be Judy, 'but in what does "object-oriented, productive
activity" have its genesis?'
Andy
At 05:14 PM 1/21/01 -0500, you wrote:
>I don't understand how collective action can be possible if inidividual
>participants can't negotiate their positions; I don't understand how
>negotiation is possible if meaning isn't recognized as more than
>referential -- positions are social and idiosyncratic every one. I don't
>understand how or WHY we reduce individuals to whatever denominator serves
>us -- oh, they're discourse people: they have no credibility. Oh, they're
>empiricists, they don't get it,. Oh, he's XYZ -- I know, because so and so
>said so.
>
>Here's some evidence of all that I don't understand --- Im interested in
>how participants on this list evaluate the following statement, which,
>speaking for myself, makes eminent sense:
>
>Cognition has its genesis in object-oriented, productive activity.
>
>Thank you.
>
>Judith
>
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