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Single Idea 12318
[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 8. Humour
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Full Idea
The female body, when taken in its entirety, is the Phallus itself.
Gist of Idea
The female body, when taken in its entirety, is the Phallus itself
Source
Alain Badiou (Briefings on Existence [1998])
Book Ref
Badiou,Alain: 'Briefings on Existence', ed/tr. Madarsz,Norman [SUNY 2006], p.27
A Reaction
Too good to pass over, too crazy to file sensibly, too creepy to have been filed under humour, my candidate for the weirdest remark I have ever read in a serious philosopher, but no doubt if you read Lacan etc for long enough it looks deeply wise.
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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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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12337
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There is 'transivity' iff membership ∈ also means inclusion ⊆
[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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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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12323
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Existence is Being itself, but only as our thought decides it
[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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