>It may not be what Marxians mean or meant but I've always found it
>useful, in terms of AT systems, to think of movement to the concrete not
>as a level (higher or lower) but as a Piercean developmental process: a
>progression from the less formed (but more creative perhaps) to the
>established. 'Things as they are' being the available resources
>(mediating tools) that regulate the process when it begins but which
>themselves may be transformed as the activity proceeds and new
>relationships develop.
>
>For what it's worth.
>
>Rolfe Windward
>Dept. of Education, Lindsey Wilson College
>windward who-is-at lindsey.edu
>"We know more than we can say" -M. Polanyi
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