successfully work and learn together as they grasp the system of mediating connections that
inform one another’s concepts, practices and judgements. We have shown that in order to
accomplishing this goal there has to be a collective determination on behalf of all
contributing parties to make explicit to one another what is implicit in their beliefs and
actions. It is only as all contributors involved with the creation of the new artefact begin to
grasp the inferential connections that inform one another’s utterances, symbolic
representation or actions that those utterances etc become intelligible in two senses: first,
their meaning becomes clearer thereby enabling all parties to infer what follows from them;
and second, they are able to use their understanding of these inferences as a resource to
create new practices to instantiate the new artefact. In doing so, the paper has highlighted a
new issue that requires further consideration and exploration.
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