Re: 2 bits Re: [xmca]-- LONG trails of prior messages help!!

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

I'll bid .25$ for your contribution of actualist ontology, Tony.
The "long string problem" seems to be ebbing. Lets hope the flow of ideas
does not!
mike

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Tony Whitson <twhitson@udel.edu> wrote:

> 1. Huw has been doing an exemplary job on this. By "I'llexemplary," I mean
> he's providing a superb example of how to handle this.
>
> 2. When I don't have time to really participate -- follow up, etc. -- I
> resist the temptation to speak up (almost as an ethical matter: that I
> shouldn't speak if I'm not able to engage). However, on this extremely rich,
> interesting, and important thread, let me just offer this:
>
> However else we might want to specify what "concepts" are, they are, most
> profoundly, semiosic (in the Peircean sense) formations. My own take is
> that, as semiosis is activity, "concepts" are formations in/of activity. For
> me, this is a matter of an actualist ( > action) ontology, as differentiated
> from a realist ( > "rei"="things") ontology.
>
> Again, I am violating my own rule against putting in my own "2 cents" when
> I'm not available to follow through. (I could detail demands on my time now;
> but you don't need to hear from me about such excuses.)
>
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, Jay Lemke wrote:
>
>  When a topic like Concepts has gotten as long as this one has, my advice
>> is to delete all the quoted prior messages except the most recent two or
>> three. That should help.
>>
>> By the way, it is NOT easy to do this the first time, but after someone
>> takes the plunge, it will be easy for the rest of us.
>>
>> Jay Lemke
>> Senior Research Scientist
>> Laboratory for Comparative Human Cognition
>> University of California - San Diego
>> 9500 Gilman Drive
>> La Jolla, California 92093-0506
>>
>> Professor (Adjunct status 2009-11)
>> School of Education
>> University of Michigan
>> Ann Arbor, MI 48109
>> www.umich.edu/~jaylemke <http://www.umich.edu/%7Ejaylemke>
>>
>> Professor Emeritus
>> City University of New York
>>
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