RE: [xmca] Wells more manageable in small pieces

Reminiscent of Thorndike's famous dictum: "Whatever exists at all exists
in some amount."

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From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu]
On Behalf Of ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 8:24 AM
To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
Subject: Re: [xmca] Wells more manageable in small pieces

Hello Andy:

Perhaps someone more intelligible than I could answer to this. I am
going
directly from the quote in the Wells article. See below to refresh
about
the quote.

eric

                      Andy Blunden

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                      PM

                      Please respond

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                      Mind, Culture,

                      Activity"

Eric, if an ideal is not material, where does it exist, of what is it
made,

and how do you get to know it without material intereaction?
And tell me some material thing you know, that is known to you as other
than an ideal, something that you know without recourse to any concept.
Andy
At 11:04 AM 1/10/2007 -0500, you wrote:

>Tony:
>
>Thank you for putting the breaks on and putting the article in more
>digestible pieces. Initially, I would like to point out two
interesting
>excerts, " discursive mediation differs from tool mediation in that
instead
>of being brought to bear directly on the object of action, it takes the
>form of a transaction between the human participants with respect to
the
>object of their action." Also in speaking about Engstrom's triangle
Wells
>writes, " in both cases (literature v. spoken and written text) the
>intended outcome is of an "ideal" rather than a material kind (Cole,
1996),
>and the action involves a transaction between participating subjects
rather
>than on a material object."
>
>I take this to mean that Wells is trying to bring into light that when
>people communicate in a goal oriented sense they may have the 'ideal'
in
>mind but in the material sense there is no representation of this
'ideal'.
>
>Any comments before I go further?
>
>eric
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> Tony
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> 09/29/2007
> 08:59
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> AM
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> Please
> respond
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> "eXtended
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> Mind,
> Culture,
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> Activity"
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>On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, David Kellogg wrote:
>
> > ... Gordon Wells is trying to DEconstrue the word "discourse", to
turn
>it from a thing back into an activity.
>
>I think there's a hazard here for discussing this particular article.
In
>most contexts, David's rendering would be fine; but in this particular
>context, I think Gordon is pointedly arguing that discoursing should be
>understood
>NOT as an ACTIVITY, but as OPERATION (a distinction that has a
>particular significance in CHAT).
>
>I think it will be tricky to be careful about this kind of terminology
in
>discussing this article, but unnecessary confusion could result if we
>don't try to observe such distinctions from the outset.
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