sounds like paraphrase of Sfard to me. But still reading and thinking.
mike
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net
<mailto:ablunden@mira.net>> wrote:
Mike Cole wrote:
One of these is her suggestion that a concept is " a word or
other signifier
WITH ITS DISCURSIVE USE (my emphasis). That complicates
identifying words
and concepts and moves us toward a Wittgensteinian notion of
word meaning.
My take is that a concept is a word (or phrase or other symbol) +
the actions in which it is realized, so it is constantly
re-instantiated every time a word is used. The artifact is just the
universal. A concept is not real or alive until the universal is
identified with particular actions by individuals. Think of the
Rossetta stone. Under what circumstances were those hieroglyphs
concepts?
Peirce had things to say about this.
Andy
I also think that reading the Davydov materials posted by Andy
is important
because VVD was quite critical of Vygotsky's notion of concept.
Indeed, this discussion is extremely important. Give me another 24
hours. ...