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Title:       Deleuze's Timed Logic
Date:        2021-08-28
Tags:        philosophy, box3
Link:        https://spool-five.com/box3/20210828t000001--deleuzes-timed-logic__philosophy_box3/
Word Count:  419
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books[1] #philosophy[2]
=>[1] https://spool-five.com/box3/20220530t000000--books__box3/
=>[2] https://spool-five.com/box3/20220602t000000--philosophy__box3/

A series of posts by James Williams.


-First part here[3].-
=>[3] https://www.jamesrwilliams.net/deleuzes-timed-logic-i/

> This reduction of the real to the possible is exactly what Deleuze
> seeks to avoid, because he wants the potential of radical novelty in
> every part of his system. When I called this series of posts ‘Deleuze’s
> timed logics’ it was an allusion to Arthur Prior, temporal logic and
> tense logic. For Prior, the difficulty of time for logic is a problem
> of undecided possibilities in the future. For Deleuze, the problem of
> time for logic is the difficulty of how propositions are both decidable
> and undecidable at all times and beyond any set of possibilities.

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> Deleuze’s middle-period metaphysics (Difference and Repetition and
> Logic of Sense) has three main subspaces: actual, virtual and surface
> of intensities. Roughly, they can be thought of as the world we can
> identify, multiplicities of pure changes and degrees of intensities.
> There is a space of intensities because, while not belonging to them,
> they play out in both other spaces, as degrees of change.

Note: 'intensities' can be understood as individuation[4]  (?)
=>[4] https://spool-five.com/box3/20220622t000001--gilbert-simondon__box3/

> ‘What is the condition for x identified at time t becoming y at time
> t+1?’ is a Deleuzian version of the familiar philosophical question ‘How
> can x’ at time t and x” at time t+1 both be called x?’ The contrast is
> between the question ‘What is the metaphysical structure required for
> explaining James becoming different?’ and ‘How can James at two different
> ages be the same person?’ For the first question, the problem is about
> explaining change and difference. For the second, the problem is about
> how to return change and difference to manageable identity.

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> In Logic of Sense, Deleuze discusses propositions by taking traditional
> categories such as designation (the thing picked out), signification
> (the meaning) and manifestation (the utterance) and adding the category
> of sense. He doesn’t deny that the first three are features of propositions,
> but rather aims to show how the sense of a proposition makes them
> problematic.

Crucially, sense also explains why propositions _matter_, and therefore
takes priority. The gets to the question of pragmatism. This is also
why _intensities_ are important, they also determine sense/problems.


-Part 2[5]-
=>[5] https://www.jamesrwilliams.net/deleuzes-timed-logic-ii%20


-Part 3[6]-
=>[6] https://www.jamesrwilliams.net/autopoiesis-and-time-deleuzes-timed-logic-v-semiology-of-autopoiesis-iii/