[Xmca-l] Re: how to broaden/enliven the xmca discussion

[mike cole]

Martin-- When I was driving home by myself and thinking about the
conversation on xmca, it seemed like I might be thinking with words, but i
was not articulating and someone might even claim that it was all a jumble
of sense and meaning anyway. Would this be inconsistent with the belief
that both acting and thinking are semiotic in character?
mike

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Martin John Packer <mpacker@uniandes.edu.co>
wrote:

> Might some kind of reconciliation be possible here by recognizing that
> both acting and thinking are *semiotic* in character?  Acting requires
> ongoing interpretation of signs (icons, indices, symbols) in the world.
> Thinking ditto, the difference being that verbal thinking (thinking with
> words), at least, requires articulating that interpretation in the form of
> new signs.
>
> ?
>
> Martin
>
> On Oct 8, 2014, at 9:09 AM, Larry Purss <lpscholar2@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am asking if Andy and David will follow David's *lead* by exploring
> > *mind* through what David *indicates* is Vygotsky's KEY INSIGHT that word
> > meaning is BEST understood -
> >
> > "as MODES  of semantic abstraction and generalization THAN as operations,
> > actions, and activities."
> >
> > This notion of BEST ways to *indicate* the sense of word meanings.
>
>
>


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