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Living in Spin
Andrew P. Porter
其他書名
Narrative as a Distributed Ontology of Human Action
出版AuthorHouse, 2011-11-18
主題Philosophy / General
ISBN14678547949781467854795
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=OT2mSQpqNfUC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋All the hard questions about human action are about what to include in a story, what can be left out, and how to characterize what gets included. A narrative selects from all the world's motions which ones are part of or relevant to an act, and so narratives give us what narratives have already shaped: the relation is circular. Many narratives can be told of an act, not all consistent. Some features of human action: - events "off-stage" determine what's happening "on-stage"; - many actions ``pass through'' motions in view; - an act can be changed after the fact; - action presupposes language; - what an act is can be highly ambiguous; - we judge acts (and narratives) because we have a stake in them.