REFERENCE AS ACTION SPACE AND TIME IN LATER WITTGENSTEIN - Hardcover

Name: REFERENCE AS ACTION SPACE AND TIME IN LATER WITTGENSTEIN
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9789382396673: REFERENCE AS ACTION SPACE AND TIME IN LATER WITTGENSTEIN

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ISBN 10: 9382396675 ISBN 13: 9789382396673

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Language: English
ISBN 10: 9382396675
ISBN 13: 9789382396673
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Reference as Action: Space and Time in Later Wittgenstein

Enakshi Ray Mitra

Published by Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 2019

ISBN 10: 9382396675 ISBN 13: 9789382396673

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Hardcover. Condition: New. This work projects the later Wittgenstein as dissolving the unwanted cleavage between reference and description through a uniquely original route that also outgrows the traditional dichotomy between the descriptive and non-descriptive theories of reference. Following a nuanced track of arguments, the author argues that the supposed primacy of reference vis-à-vis the optional and indeterminate character of description (or meaning) virtually feeds on a containment model of space and time. Objects or referents lie smugly encased in neat space-time boundaries that serve as static and irrevocable foundations-capable of receiving a vast range of alternative descriptions and withdrawals. The ontology of such pre-semantic referents throw up a parallel otology of actions-where the latter also come to be seen as brute physical events with a bare space-time outline over and above their various intentional or adverbial descriptions. This work seeks to break through such uninspiring splits between reference and description by synthesizing Wittgenstein� s treatment of these notions with those of space, time and action. A systematically detailed exposition of Wittgenstein� s arguments against the inert and external character of space shows actions not as bare space-time extensions, but as richly qualitative blends of such putative physical events with their intentions and modalities. Overall this exercise presents a graphic depiction of actions as not being constrained by real lumps of objects in space, but as breaking, bending and fusing space-time into objects and their interrelations, thereby suturing description and reference together in a seamless complex. Seller Inventory # 139112

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