1. There is a native spaciousness to the process of making and inhabiting places.
2. We are neither above nor at the end of the process of making and inhabiting places; we exist within that process.
3. So criticisms that presume simple identities or simple non-spacious inhabitation are wrong.
4. The establishment of social grammars is neither arbitrary nor random. Social content has its own processes, initiatives, and inertias. It exists within a process of active appropriation and interpretation.
5. This process can be studied by considering Kant's account of temporality and meaning, as well as concepts from Hegel and Nietzsche, among others.

Index
General outline
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(c) David Kolb, 1 August 2001