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Single Idea 12323
[filed under theme 7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / b. Being and existence
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Full Idea
Existence is precisely Being itself in as much as thought decides it. And that decision orients thought essentially. ...It is when you decide upon what exists that you bind your thought to Being.
Gist of Idea
Existence is Being itself, but only as our thought decides it
Source
Alain Badiou (Briefings on Existence [1998], 2)
Book Ref
Badiou,Alain: 'Briefings on Existence', ed/tr. Madarsz,Norman [SUNY 2006], p.55
A Reaction
[2nd half p.57] Helpful for us non-Heideggerians to see what is going on. Does this mean that Being is Kant's noumenon?
The
30 ideas
from Alain Badiou
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12318
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The female body, when taken in its entirety, is the Phallus itself
[Badiou]
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12320
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Ontology is (and always has been) Cantorian mathematics
[Badiou]
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12331
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Logic is definitional, but real mathematics is axiomatic
[Badiou]
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12338
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We must either assert or deny any single predicate of any single subject
[Badiou]
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12332
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The modern view of Being comes when we reject numbers as merely successions of One
[Badiou]
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12337
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There is 'transivity' iff membership ∈ also means inclusion ⊆
[Badiou]
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12335
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Numbers are for measuring and for calculating (and the two must be consistent)
[Badiou]
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12334
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There is no single unified definition of number
[Badiou]
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12333
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Each type of number has its own characteristic procedure of introduction
[Badiou]
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12342
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Topos theory explains the plurality of possible logics
[Badiou]
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12341
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Logic is a mathematical account of a universe of relations
[Badiou]
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12340
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There is no Being as a whole, because there is no set of all sets
[Badiou]
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12323
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Existence is Being itself, but only as our thought decides it
[Badiou]
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12321
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The axiom of choice must accept an indeterminate, indefinable, unconstructible set
[Badiou]
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12324
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Consensus is the enemy of thought
[Badiou]
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12322
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Must we accept numbers as existing when they no longer consist of units?
[Badiou]
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12325
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Philosophy has been relieved of physics, cosmology, politics, and now must give up ontology
[Badiou]
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12327
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The undecidability of the Continuum Hypothesis may have ruined or fragmented set theory
[Badiou]
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12326
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The primitive name of Being is the empty set; in a sense, only the empty set 'is'
[Badiou]
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12329
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If mathematics is a logic of the possible, then questions of existence are not intrinsic to it
[Badiou]
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12328
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Platonists like axioms and decisions, Aristotelians like definitions, possibilities and logic
[Badiou]
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12330
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In ontology, logic dominated language, until logic was mathematized
[Badiou]
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12316
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For Enlightenment philosophers, God was no longer involved in politics
[Badiou]
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12317
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The God of religion results from an encounter, not from a proof
[Badiou]
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9808
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Philosophy aims to reveal the grandeur of mathematics
[Badiou]
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9809
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Mathematics inscribes being as such
[Badiou]
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9811
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It is of the essence of being to appear
[Badiou]
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9812
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In mathematics, if a problem can be formulated, it will eventually be solved
[Badiou]
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9813
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Mathematics shows that thinking is not confined to the finite
[Badiou]
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9814
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All great poetry is engaged in rivalry with mathematics
[Badiou]
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