Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Proposition, Narration, Description

As is familiar to most, Experience is constituted by episodes that terminate after they have started.  In other words, the fundamental elements of that World are not Facts or States-of-Affairs, as Wittgenstein asserts, but Events, each of which is constituted by an internal Temporal structure.  Accordingly, the Language with the greater fidelity to that World is that composed by Propositions that are, more accurately, narrative, not descriptive.  Thus, for example, inappropriate representations of an Event include, a Causal Proposition analyzed as an a-temporal conjunction, and Function notation, in which the Subject-Predicate relation is symbolized as static.  So, both of these features of Wittgenstein's ideal Language in the Tractatus are inadequate to a different Ontological presupposition.

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