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Chapter 2 Are There Ambiguous Gestures?

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If we accept the hypothesis that we can get confused about gestures, which seems to be a quite ordinary experience, the next task in order is to provide an account of ambiguous gestures or, at the very least, of the conditions under which they can become ambiguous. That is the subject of the present paper: investigating the conditions of possibility for the ambiguity of gestures. In what follows, I shall address several possible causes for this ambiguity. The first one would be categorial: the idea is that an incomplete metaphysics of gestures would leave us in a situation where we cannot make a difference between complete and incomplete gestures, so much so that all gestures would become ambiguous ona priori grounds. The second one is contextual: depending on the way we assent to gestures, they can (or so it seems) always be downgraded to a lower status, incomplete gestures or mere acts. Finally, I shall take advantage of Anscombe’s philosophy of intention to show in which ways our environment can contribute to the ambiguity of gestures.

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Philosophie
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hal-04723278 , version 1 (07-10-2024)

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Mathias Girel. Chapter 2 Are There Ambiguous Gestures?. Maddalena, Giovanni; Ferrucci, Fabio; Bella, Michela; Santarelli, Matteo. Gestures, De Gruyter, pp.33-46, 2024, ⟨10.1515/9783110785845-003⟩. ⟨hal-04723278⟩
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