Items for "dialectic"

The complementarity of a representational and an epistemological function of signs in scientific activity

Signs do not only ‘represent’ something for somebody, as Peirce's definition goes, but also ‘mediate’ relations between us and our world, including ourselves, as has been elaborated by Vygotsky...

Keywords: epistemology, activity theory, collateral knowledge, dialectic, Peirce, Vygotsky