Re: [xmca] Peter Smagorinsky on concepts

[Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>]

Mmmm, hard to keep track of whatever it was we disagreed about here, 
Huw, but my reaction to what you say would be that an abstract concept 
also mirrors reality, but in a different way. The task of the thinker is 
to "reconstruct the real in thought" and that begins from an abstraction 
which best encapsulates the whole Gestalt, but lacks concreteness, and 
must therefore mark the beginning point of a mental reconstruction of 
the real. Yes?

Andy

Huw Lloyd wrote:
> My understanding is that a concrete conception, as referred to here, 
> by Marx, refers to conceptions that authentically mirror the concrete, 
> the material, the phenomena.
>
> All systems comprise of material relations.
>
> I refer to material here because this is directly related to structure.
>
> Concrete is not merely a concentration of abstractions, it is a 
> concentration that mirrors the phenomena of interest in the concrete 
> world.  Alternatively if we were to implement our concrete conceptions 
> we would also have a concrete system.
>
> Huw
>  


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