Editing Under the Net (section)

==Explanation of the title==
The "net" in question is the net of [[abstraction]], [[generalization]], and [[theory]].<ref>[[Dennis Wrong]] (2005) ''The Persistence of the Particular'', chapter 1: The irreducible particularities of human experience, [[Transaction Publishers]] {{ISBN|0-7658-0272-4}}</ref> In Chapter 6, a quotation from Jake's book ''The Silencer'' includes the passage: "All theorizing is flight. We must be ruled by the situation itself and this is unutterably particular here. Indeed it is something to which we can never get close enough, however hard we may try as it were to crawl under the net."<ref name="underthenet">{{cite book|last1=Murdoch|first1=Iris|title=Under the Net|date=2002|publisher=Vintage Books|location=London|isbn=9780099429074|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r4kyTzWATzoC&pg=PA91|access-date=5 November 2016}}</ref>{{rp|91}}

[[Michael Wood (academic)|Michael Wood]], writing in the ''[[London Review of Books]],'' notes that ''"''the work’s title,... borrows and interrogates an image [of Newtonian mechanics] from [[Ludwig Wittgenstein|Wittgenstein]]'s ''[[Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus|Tractatus]].''"<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n01/michael-wood/dont-worry-about-the-pronouns|title=Don't worry about the pronouns|last=Wood|first=Michael|date=2019-01-03|work=London Review of Books|access-date=2019-07-16|pages=17–20|issn=0260-9592|quote=We should pause here perhaps over the work’s title, which borrows and interrogates an image from Wittgenstein’s Tractatus. Newtonian mechanics, the philosopher says, capture the world through the equivalent of a net, or many nets. The mesh may be fine or coarse, and its holes of different shapes, but it will always be regular, will always bring description ‘to a unified form’. ‘To the different networks correspond different systems of describing the world.’ But, like Jake, we may need to be reminded that our descriptions are not the world, which may slip away, so to speak, under the net. ‘Laws, like the law of causation etc, treat of the network and not of what the network describes.’}}</ref> [[Peter J. Conradi]], in his 2001 biography of Iris Murdoch, specifies that "the title alludes to Wittgenstein’s ''Tractatus,'' 6, 341, the net of discourse behind which the world's particulars hide, which can separate us from our world, yet simultaneously connect us."<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/irismurdochlife00conr/page/384|title=Iris Murdoch: A Life|last=Conradi, Peter J.|date=2001|publisher=Norton|isbn=0393048756|edition=1st American|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/irismurdochlife00conr/page/384 384]|oclc=46936252|url-access=registration}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tractatus_Logico-Philosophicus/6|title=Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus|last=Wittgenstein|first=Ludwig|chapter=6 |quote=6.341. Newtonian mechanics, for example, brings the description of the universe to a unified form. Let us imagine a white surface with irregular black spots. We now say: Whatever kind of picture these make I can always get as near as I like to its description, if I cover the surface with a sufficiently fine square network and now say of every square that it is white or black. In this way I shall have brought the description of the surface to a unified form. This form is arbitrary, because I could have applied with equal success a net with a triangular or hexagonal mesh. It can happen that the description would have been simpler with the aid of a triangular mesh; that is to say we might have described the surface more accurately with a triangular, and coarser, than with the finer square mesh, or vice versa, and so on. To the different networks correspond different systems of describing the world. Mechanics determine a form of description by saying: All propositions in the description of the world must be obtained in a given way from a number of given propositions—the mechanical axioms. It thus provides the bricks for building the edifice of science, and says: Whatever building thou wouldst erect, thou shalt construct it in some manner with these bricks and these alone...}}</ref> According to Conradi, Hugo Belfounder is "a portrait of Wittgenstein's star pupil from 1937, [[Yorick Smythies]]."<ref>{{Citation|last=Conradi|first=Peter J.|title=Holy Fool and Magus: The Uses of Discipleship in Under the Net and The Flight from the Enchanter*|date=2011-12-08|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CkNcGU2TrsAC&q=Holy+Fool+and+Magus+yorick&pg=PA125|work=Iris Murdoch, Philosopher|pages=118–133|editor-last=Broackes|editor-first=Justin|publisher=Oxford University Press|doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199289905.003.0004|isbn=9780199289905|access-date=2019-07-16|url-access=subscription}}</ref>