The Logic of Sense - Four
There was a lot of summary in this section. Deleuze talked about how we have moved, in the text, from the basic duality of cause/effect now to the duality of body/language. The things themselves have depth where-as the language describing them have no depth, is a surface phenomenon.
He then looks at Carroll's use of this duality to create oddities ... talking about "speaking of food" (attaching words to depth) and "eating words" (attaching bodies [things] to the surface).
He then talks about "sense" again ... sense as in the notion of a sentence making sense (or not). Sense does not exist outside propositions, but it is an attribute of state-of-affairs (not an attribute of the proposition in which it exists).
Here the "state-of-affairs" are the qualites of things and the relations between those qualities, between things.
Deleuze makes of point of noting that the "things/proposition" (body/language) duality is not a true dualism in the classic sense, but is rather two sides of the same coin (or mirror, as we are speaking in Carroll's terms too). The intersection or frontier between the two [sides] is impenetrable.
He then starts discussing the duality within the propostion (a third duality, thus making a series ... and hence the chapter title "Fourth [chapter] Series of dualities".
This duality is between the denotation of things and the expression of sense. Following the Frege distinction we now have the proposition containing part denotation and part sense where the denotation is of things in stasis and the sense is about becommings.
Deleuze then discusses these as two sides of a mirror ... one side the relation between denotation and the other the relation between senses (of sentences). The manifestation/signification discussed in previous chapters is now the frontier between these two sides.
He then shows examples of Carroll developing the two dimensions ... denoted objects and expressable meanings. "Expressable meanings" are the combination of sense and events [verbs].
So ...
using the body/language duality discussed in earlier chapters as the example, Deleuze runs the same logic for denotation/sense within propositions themselves.
We wait to see what he plans to do with it.
He then looks at Carroll's use of this duality to create oddities ... talking about "speaking of food" (attaching words to depth) and "eating words" (attaching bodies [things] to the surface).
He then talks about "sense" again ... sense as in the notion of a sentence making sense (or not). Sense does not exist outside propositions, but it is an attribute of state-of-affairs (not an attribute of the proposition in which it exists).
Here the "state-of-affairs" are the qualites of things and the relations between those qualities, between things.
Deleuze makes of point of noting that the "things/proposition" (body/language) duality is not a true dualism in the classic sense, but is rather two sides of the same coin (or mirror, as we are speaking in Carroll's terms too). The intersection or frontier between the two [sides] is impenetrable.
He then starts discussing the duality within the propostion (a third duality, thus making a series ... and hence the chapter title "Fourth [chapter] Series of dualities".
This duality is between the denotation of things and the expression of sense. Following the Frege distinction we now have the proposition containing part denotation and part sense where the denotation is of things in stasis and the sense is about becommings.
Deleuze then discusses these as two sides of a mirror ... one side the relation between denotation and the other the relation between senses (of sentences). The manifestation/signification discussed in previous chapters is now the frontier between these two sides.
He then shows examples of Carroll developing the two dimensions ... denoted objects and expressable meanings. "Expressable meanings" are the combination of sense and events [verbs].
So ...
using the body/language duality discussed in earlier chapters as the example, Deleuze runs the same logic for denotation/sense within propositions themselves.
We wait to see what he plans to do with it.
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