Book contents
- Representing Relationships
- Representing Relationships
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Reviews
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Modes of Minding Social Action: Bodily Indices of Unity, Dimensional Icons of Rank, Concrete Matching Operations of Equality, Arbitrary Symbols of Proportions
- Part II Consubstantial Assimilation: The Conformation System of Communal Sharing
- Part III Iconic Dimensions and Magnitudes: The Conformation System of Authority Ranking
- Part IV Concrete Operations of One-to-One Correspondence for Equality Matching, Arbitrary Symbolism for Market Pricing, Combinations of Conformations, and What Children Discover
- Chapter 14 Conforming Equality Matching by One-to-One Correspondence
- Chapter 15 Symbolic Conformation of Market Pricing
- Chapter 16 Contemplations
- References
- Index
Chapter 15 - Symbolic Conformation of Market Pricing
from Part IV - Concrete Operations of One-to-One Correspondence for Equality Matching, Arbitrary Symbolism for Market Pricing, Combinations of Conformations, and What Children Discover
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 November 2025
Book contents
- Representing Relationships
- Representing Relationships
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Reviews
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Modes of Minding Social Action: Bodily Indices of Unity, Dimensional Icons of Rank, Concrete Matching Operations of Equality, Arbitrary Symbols of Proportions
- Part II Consubstantial Assimilation: The Conformation System of Communal Sharing
- Part III Iconic Dimensions and Magnitudes: The Conformation System of Authority Ranking
- Part IV Concrete Operations of One-to-One Correspondence for Equality Matching, Arbitrary Symbolism for Market Pricing, Combinations of Conformations, and What Children Discover
- Chapter 14 Conforming Equality Matching by One-to-One Correspondence
- Chapter 15 Symbolic Conformation of Market Pricing
- Chapter 16 Contemplations
- References
- Index
Summary
To conform market pricing, people typically use symbols whose meaning is purely a matter of common knowledge of widespread use of the symbols in a given social network or community. Like the other three conformation systems, market pricing symbols conform representationally, emotionally, motivationally, and morally. Signatures on a contract, for example, are symbolic legal and moral commitments. Beyond writing and bookkeeping, many technologies have been developed and continue to be invented to facilitate the use of symbolic conformations of market pricing. Before and after the invention of currency, measurements of weights, volumes, and land-areas depend on convention-based symbolism. Commerce is especially dependent on such symbolism to conform prices, rents, wages, interest rates, and other rates and proportions.
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- Representing RelationshipsModes of Cognition and Connection, pp. 325 - 347Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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