Polyhedral organization and 'limb responsibility'

Transdisciplinarity-3 as the Emergence of Patterned Experience (Part II) (Part #4)

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The above arguments point to the importance of configuring polarities as a way of creating transcendent frameworks (Judge, 1994). In such configurations of categories, there wouldneed to be concern for the health of the extremes -- a form of 'limb responsibility', if the configuration of categories is expected to support a new body of awareness.

Whether in the case of a conceptual framework or a social group, the process of configuration may variously be compared to the construction of a body, a walking frame or a house. It is a form of conceptual scaffolding.