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[catalogued under 7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / i. Deflating being]

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 Reference

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.