On 23 April 2011 06:41, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net
<mailto:ablunden@mira.net>> wrote:
I'll leave Marx on commodity Fetishsm for the moment, Martin, and
solely to make the point that I am not alone on this business of
meaning as act.
For example, V P Zinchenko's "Vygotsky's ideas about units for the
analysis of mind', in Culture, Communication and cognition:
Vygvotskyan Perspectives, ed J V Wertsch CUP 1985, pp. 94-118:
“one can consider tool-mediated action as being very close to
meaning as unit of analysis.”
Quick question, Andy. Are you distinguishing instances and
classifications?
I can demonstrate a plan by executing it. I can refer to the
execution as an example of my plan. But the execution in not a plan.
Huw
and Engestrom's "Learning by Expanding":
“According to Vygotsky, the instrumentally mediated act ‘is the
simplest segment of behavior that is dealt with by research based on
elementary units’.”
Andy