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Single Idea 8245
[filed under theme 18. Thought / D. Concepts / 1. Concepts / a. Nature of concepts
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Full Idea
Logic is reductionist not accidentally, but essentially and necessarily: following the route marked out by Frege and Russell, it wants to turn the concept into a function (...when actually a concept is a form, or a force).
Gist of Idea
The logical attitude tries to turn concepts into functions, when they are really forms or forces
Source
G Deleuze / F Guattari (What is Philosophy? [1991], 2.6)
Book Ref
Deleuze/Guattari: 'What is Philosophy?' [Verso 1994], p.135
A Reaction
[Last part on p.144] I'm not sure that I understand 'form or force', but the idea that concepts are mere functions is like describing something as 'transport', without saying whether it is bus/bike/train.. Is a concept a vision, or a tool?
The
14 ideas
from 'What is Philosophy?'
8217
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Philosophy is a concept-creating discipline
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8223
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The plague of philosophy is those who criticise without creating, and defend dead concepts
[Deleuze/Guattari]
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8220
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Philosophy is in a perpetual state of digression
[Deleuze/Guattari]
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8219
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Logic has an infantile idea of philosophy
[Deleuze/Guattari]
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8221
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We cannot judge the Cogito. Must we begin? Must we start from certainty? Can 'I' relate to thought?
[Deleuze/Guattari]
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8222
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Concepts are superior because they make us more aware, and change our thinking
[Deleuze/Guattari]
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8218
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Other people completely revise our perceptions, because they are possible worlds
[Deleuze/Guattari]
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8224
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'Eris' is the divinity of conflict, the opposite of Philia, the god of friendship
[Deleuze/Guattari]
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8242
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Philosophy aims at what is interesting, remarkable or important - not at knowledge or truth
[Deleuze/Guattari]
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8243
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Atheism is the philosopher's serenity, and philosophy's achievement
[Deleuze/Guattari]
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8245
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The logical attitude tries to turn concepts into functions, when they are really forms or forces
[Deleuze/Guattari]
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8247
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Phenomenology needs art as logic needs science
[Deleuze/Guattari]
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8246
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Logic hates philosophy, and wishes to supplant it
[Deleuze/Guattari]
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8248
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Phenomenology says thought is part of the world
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