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Ideas for 'Physics', 'A Conversation: what is it? What is it for?' and 'On Aristotle's 'Metaphysics''

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / i. Deflating being

21847	Before Being there is politics [Deleuze]
	Full Idea: Before Being there is politics.
	From: Gilles Deleuze (A Conversation: what is it? What is it for? [1977], I)
	A reaction: [He says he is quoting Felix Guattari] I can only think that this is a very Marxist view - that politics permeates and dictates everything. This seems to tell me that I am forever controlled by something so deep and vast that I can never understand it.

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 4. Abstract Existence

5105	The incommensurability of the diagonal always exists, and so it is not in time [Aristotle]
	Full Idea: The incommensurability of the diagonal always exists, and so it is not in time.
	From: Aristotle (Physics [c.337 BCE], 221b36)
	A reaction: This must make Aristotle sympathetic to Platonism in mathematics, even though he rejects the full theory of Forms. Such a view is not uncommon among modern philosophers. Presumably the incommensurability is true in all possible worlds? 'In'?