Re: lousy typing!/signs-tools

From: N (VYGOTSKY@CHARTER.NET)
Date: Fri Nov 15 2002 - 17:28:16 PST


Hmm. Mike my position is that it is the function not the thing that
defines the tool or sign. I think Vygotsky argued for their functional
seperation as when he critiqued Dewey for referring to language as the
"mother of all tools".

I think you tried to merge them with your use of artifact. This makes
sense sometimes, but not at others. I would say the seperation is more
needed when internalization is the object, and not so when it merely a
byproduct.

N

Mike Cole wrote:

>Sorry about that lousy typing!
>
>To repeat. So Vygotsky and I are wrong, Dale and Nate. Tools are tools and signs and
>are signs. NOT different moments/movements in a single process. There is
>no signness to tools, no toolness (except internally) to signs?
>By this
>interpretation, Alfred is correct. Dualism wins.
>mike
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