So are place grammars formal systems that guide us?

I already tried to finesse this issue

• by talking about how place grammars are composed of expectations and norms, with varying degrees of organization and self-awareness,

• by insisting that place grammars exist only as spread out in space and time, within the process of their repetition, not as abstract guides,

• and by insisting that they exist within fields that they do not control or structure,

• and that the formally describable structure or grammar is already, precisely because it involves linked possibilities, already polarized by aims and goals

But is this enough?

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(c) David Kolb, 1 August 2001