The Logic of Gilles Deleuze: Basic Principles

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French philosopher Gilles Deleuze wrote two ‘logic’ books: Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation and The Logic of Sense. However, in neither of these books nor in any other works does Deleuze articulate in a formal way the features of the logic he employs. He certainly does not use classical logic. And the best options for the non-classical logic that he may be implementing are: fuzzy, intuitionist, and many-valued. These are applicable to his concepts of heterogeneous composition and becoming, affirmative synthetic disjunction, and powers of the false. In The Logic of Gilles Deleuze. Volume 1: Basic Principles, Corry Shores examines the applicability of three non-classical logics to Deleuze’s philosophy, by building from the philosophical and logical writings of Graham Priest, the world’s leading proponent of dialetheism. Through so doing, Shores demonstrates how Deleuze’s logic is best understood as a dialetheic, paraconsistent, many-valued logic. Cover Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Abbreviations for Classical Texts Introduction: The Logic of Magic and the Magic of Logic Introduction Deleuze: From Magician to Logician Deleuze and Logic Logic: What–What–What? Classical Logic Non-Classical Logics Deleuze Contra Logic Overview Part I Dis-Composition and Dis-Identification 1 Becoming Dialetheic: The Logic of Change Introduction Method and Philosophy in Bergson and Russell Russell’s Philosophical Types Bergson’s Intuitional Philosophy Bergson’s Intuition of Duration Bergson and Cinematic Kinematics Russell against Intuition Russell’s Mathematics of Motion A Classical Logic of Becoming Priest and Dialetheic Motion Science of Logics Priest’s Dialetheic Account of Motion Deleuze’s Paradox of Pure Becoming 2 Enter the Puddingstone: Demonic Gluonics Introduction Demonic Deleuze Satan and the Sorcerer Watch and the Puddingstone: Dupréel’s Consistency Fuzzing the Stone: Consistency in Deleuze and Guattari Logic of Fuzz Gluing Difference Who’s Alice Now? 3 Sorcerous Conceptions: Deleuze’s Philosophy of Thinking Introduction Philosophy from Death to Creation Deleuze and Transdisciplinarity A Rivalry of Friends The Philosophy of Pinball Dupréelian Concept Consistency The Cartesian Aggregate Self Part II Logic of Otherness: Negation, or Disjunction? 4 Alternance and Otherness Introduction Must Negation Be Dark? Augmentation as Negation: Routley and Routley’s Non-Exclusive Otherthanness Paraconsistency and Paracompleteness The Negation Deleuze Denies, and the Negation Deleuze Affirms Deleuze and Alternance The God of Logic: Kantian Disjunctive Syllogism The Idol of Baphomet: Klossowski’s Demonic Disorder 5 Truth and Bifurcation: Leibniz and the Stoics Introduction Incompossible Leibnizes Forks in Time The Stoic Affirmation of Negational Fates Reasoning Stoically Corporeality Incorporeality Stoic Time To Cooperate with Destiny by Affirming Creative Falsity 6 Wisdom without Logic: Intuitionism Introduction Formalization and Its Malcontents: Axioms of Control, Flows of Rebellion The Capitalist Axiomatic The History of Axiomatics and Problematics Modern Axioms and Problems Intuitionist Philosophy The Nature of Intuitionism Historical Context and Development of Intuitionism Brouwer the Intuitionist Philosopher Constructivism Brouwer on the Language of Logic Brouwer and Logic Difference as Distance: Negationless Mathematics Part III Falsity 7 False Movements Introduction The Being of Falsity Errant Motion Erroneous Falsity Formless Falsity Truth Undone 8 False Creations Introduction Deformation’s Creations The Falsifier The Scale of Falsification Truth and Time: The Falsification Falsifier as Fabulist The Past That Never Was Falsifier as Clairvoyant Sorcerer-Seer Falsifier as Self- and World-Creative Artist The Garden of Ambiguous Adams: Crystalline Time Conclusion Introduction What Has Followed Here? And What’s to Follow Notes References Index