xmca@weber.ucsd.edu writes:
>
>--- Phillip White <Phillip_White@ceo.cudenver.edu> wrote:
>> perhaps activity theory as the architect?
>>
>
>With activity theory describing theory as an artifact in the context of
>activity, it holds the possibility to be a theory of theories in action.
>Dangerously so, applied to itself, it becomes indefinitely recursive.
but are not all living theories recursive?
is not vygotsky's theory of semiotic mediation a kind of symbolic
bootstrapping? and certainly, such bootstrapping as described by Edelman,
a recursive process.
phillip
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The English noun "identity" comes, ultimately, from the
Latin adverb "identidem", which means "repeatedly."
The Latin has exactly the same rhythm as the English,
buh-BUM-buh-BUM - a simple iamb, repeated; and
"identidem" is, in fact, nothing more than a
reduplication of the word "idem", "the same":
"idem(et)idem". "Same(and) same". The same,
repeated. It is a word that does exactly what
it means.
from "The Elusive Embrace" by Daniel
Mendelsohn.
phillip white
doctoral student http://ceo.cudenver.edu/~hacms_lab/index.html
scrambling a dissertation
denver, colorado
phillip_white@ceo.cudenver.edu
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