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Full Idea
The saturation and collapse of the Euclidean idea of the being of number as One's procession signs the entry of the thought of Being into modern times.
Gist of Idea
The modern view of Being comes when we reject numbers as merely successions of One
Source
Alain Badiou (Briefings on Existence [1998], 11)
Book Ref
Badiou,Alain: 'Briefings on Existence', ed/tr. Madarsz,Norman [SUNY 2006], p.125
A Reaction
That is, by allowing that not all numbers are built of units, numbers expand widely enough to embrace everything we think of as Being. The landmark event is the acceptance of the infinite as a number.
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