Social artifact
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Artifacts are the objects or products designed and used by people to meet re-occurring needs or to solve problems.
An example of a common social artifact is a document.
The philosopher Marx W. Wartofsky distinguished several types of artifacts:
- primary artifacts, which are used in production (e.g., a hammer, a fork, a lamp, a camera, etc.)
- secondary artifacts, which are representations of primary artifacts (e.g., a user manual for a camera)
- tertiary artifacts, which are representations of secondary artifacts
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