Re: [xmca] Living metaphor and conventionalized language

[Tony Whitson <twhitson@UDel.Edu>]

On Sat, 13 Aug 2011, Larry Purss wrote:

> Martin
>
> What happens to con-scientia in the movement FROM "in itself" TO
> "for-itself" THROUGH others. What happens to con-scientia when inner speech
> develops.  What happens to  con-scientia when speech becomes ABBREVIATED.
> John Shotter's article in the "papers for discussion, 2011]" takes Bakhtin's
> insights of utterances as being used TO MOVE others as an answer to deepen
> our understanding of knowledge and cognition  withIN intra-activity AS
> FUNDAMENTALLY continuing to be con-scientia.  How particularly con-scientia
> is sublated is an open question?
>
> Larry

Thanks for these questions, Larry

Your use of "con-scientia" is helpful. It interrupts, or at least 
refracts, the discourse of scientia.

The theme for the 2012 AERA meeting is "Non Satis Scire: To Know is Not 
Enough," which reflects a sense of "Scire" or "scientia" as something that 
stops short of action/inter-action. This is how scire/scientia has come to 
be understood in the culture of positive science, with its disparagement 
of mere cognoscere / connaisance / conocimiento.

The scire/cognoscere savoir/connaitre dichotomy presupposes scientia as 
not con-scientia. It's good to challenge that. Scire/scientia derives from 
the same proto-Indoeuropean root as "scissors," so it presumes (and in 
positivistic science, is predicated on) the methodological pre-scission of 
the "con" from the "scientia"
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