The relationship between meaning and connectivism is a difficult one to get at. This is an interesting attempt. It depicts the 'cognitive revolution' as an effort to bring 'mind' back into the human sciences after a "long winter of objectivism." Which is fair enough, I guess. But as the author notes, the problem is, as "'we mistakenly "compare the use of words with games and calculi which have fixed rules' (Wittgenstein's Tractatus, 1953, no. 81), we always think that words must have stable, unequivocal, already determined meanings," which we know isn't the case. And that is, for me, a significant part of the reason I want to discuss things like patterns and connections and interactivity - because of the tendency to imagine fixed rules governing meanings and language, and then imagining that they apply to mind and cognition. #PLENK2010
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