Re: [xmca] activity (was concepts)

[Huw Lloyd <huw.softdesigns@gmail.com>]

On 23 April 2011 13:00, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:

> Instances and types are both involved here, Huw.
> In fact, any concept has individual, universal and particular moments.
>

Ok.  And are are you happy that a type can be materially implemented, such
as the notion of room temperature implemented in a thermostat, and that this
type is not an action, but that it regulates an action?

Huw


>
> Andy
>
> Huw Lloyd wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>
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