Re: [xmca] FW: new Vimeo

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Peter, thanks for posting this. 

And, Larry: classy as always, at least from what I've gathered in reading your regular remarks.

I hadn't really thought of the word 'background' (features, functions), but it lends a new dimension to my understanding of how these preconceptual thought processes lay the groundwork for other types of concepts.  Where you have named background/foreground, I was thinking kind of more of a ground/up dimension.

Why do I get the feeling that Andy's gonna come along and caution against both -- which keeps happening to me as I try to work my way through all these distinctions : ) 

Like, Andy says that syncretic thinking can't be concepts, but it's still part of the process of the development of concepts...so it's not, but it is...

Linearly, no?  Holistically, yes?  Idk...

Anthony

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On Jan 21, 2012, at 9:43 AM, Larry Purss <lpscholar2@gmail.com> wrote:

> Anthony and Andy
> 
> What a wonderful video.  The clarity of developing the 7 psychological
> functions came through and was very helpful in locating the background
> features of the devlopment of concepts.  It was interesting to hear that
> most of Vygotsky's work was exploring this background involved in
> conceptual development.
> 
> Andy, I hope this post can elaborate in more depth "potential concepts" and
> how fundamental this realm of living is for dwelling in the world.  As I
> understand your comment on Wittgenstein he was exploring the centrality of
> potential concepts and practical activity for orienting to the living
> world.  I would suggest his writings on "use" OF language [which is NOT
> true concepts] may be more vital for our intersubjective RELATIONAL "ways"
> of orienting to the living world  than most scholars realize. True concepts
> that loose their VITAL interplay to the underlying 7 psychological
> functions seems to be the realm Wittgenstein was exploring.
> 
> My fascination on the processes  "animating" the person and the place of
> the 7 psychological functions underlying concepts in answering this
> question of being/becoming animated within the living world.
> 
> In other words, the whole question of the "background" 7 functions that
> are intimately linked to the foregrounded true concepts and how central the
> capacity to FLEXIBLY move within this field [both background and concepts]
> seems to be central to vitality or that which animates.
> 
> Once again Anthony I appreciate your contribution to producing  these
> fascinating and informative videos which help clarify the complexities of
> conceptual development. Andy I'm waiting for part 2.  The video was a
> wondeful way to start my day.
> 
> Larry
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 3:16 AM, Peter Smagorinsky <smago@uga.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Anthony Barra has posted a new video to the CHAT vimeo page: Andy Blunden
>> on Concepts, Part 1<http://vimeo.com/groups/chat/videos/35393145>.
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