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Toward a collaborative community of minds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2004

Katherine Nelson*
Affiliation:
Department of Developmental Psychology, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, NY10016

Abstract:

Three points extend the authors' comprehensive and provocative argument: (1) The idea of “entering a community of minds” is suggested to replace theory of mind or social understanding; (2) learning words and concepts through a Wittgensteinian process often involves a period of “use without meaning”; (3) concepts based in social interaction are achieved through collaborative – neither individual nor social alone – construction.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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