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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Merle -<br>
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give to the word "boundary"? Time, location, etc.?</div>
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<p>Good point... that is perhaps the key to why I resist the term,
it is usually offered to me registered on one of those singular
dimensions... while I perhaps perceive it as the superposition
of multiple dimensions (and topological relations?). I also find
"boundaries" to be contextual which is why some of us end up
drawing firm lines in the sand (or stringing fences, etc.)</p>
<p>My best experience of the term is in the social science use of
"boundary negotiating artifact" in the sense of:</p>
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<p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://depts.washington.edu/csclab/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Lee-2007.pdf"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://depts.washington.edu/csclab/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Lee-2007.pdf</a></p>
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<p>or to the extent we are talking about "Objects", the Social
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<p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_object"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_object</a></p>
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<p>- Steve<br>
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