Vygotsky vs reality

Pythagorean

I took the article to be a hard Chomskian view.

apeiron

That's a risk you take citing university publicity departments rather than research papers . They have an interest in making papers seem ground-breaking when they aren't.

apeiron

I should add that Vygotksy goes beyond because Whorf was not claiming that language and socio-cultural evolution were the basis of higher human mental abilities. He didn't say they led to self-awareness, recollective memory, introspection, voluntary imagery, etc. So Vygotsky's is the broader theory.

fuzzyfelt

How is Vygotsky broader in this instance? The ideas here seem more narrow.

apeiron

Broader in the sense in that he suggests a single (so yes, narrower) mechanism that explains all the higher faculties.