Tools skillfully used produce Artifacts ThinkingOutLoud.DonaldNoyes.20071010.20121201
Tools are most effective when employed by one skilled in their use, they then can be used to "produce" valuable artifacts.
- Consider a "skilled sculptor" with hammer and chisel and a block of stone as aids in understanding the relationship
- The skill in the handling of tools, is developed, not inherent
- The artifact emerges as the sculptor shapes it, by removal of fragments of stone, one by one, the right amount from the right place
- The MentalImage of what it is to become emerges from this effort, for all to see