3.1 Principles of Mental Conviviality

This heading presents the generall principles of Mental Conviviality. An incomplete list of foreseen contents of this section is as follows:

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2 Words and ideas seen as tools
28 June 2007, by Administrator

It is often suggested that words and ideas function as tools, but it remains difficult to find this principle clearly expressed. A few examples are presented below.
There is some question whether the present article should be considered "original research" and therefore removed from this (...)
1 What is Meant by Mental Conviviality?
11 June 2007, by Administrator

The heading "Mental Conviviality" covers the domain of mental phenomena considered as tools or artefacts. It treats of ideas, conceptual schemes and language systems from the point of view whereby they can be regarded as "tools."
Illich, like others before him, noted that ideas, conceptual (...)