Heidegger

Thanks to both you and Tympan. Oddly enough when
I first read (and it was one of the first things)
Heidegger’s What is Metaphysics one of the first
things that came to mind was set theory.

Ed Wall

>Badiou uses a lot of set theory in his work. Some of it harks back to the set
>theory behind Rusell’s early work, Gödel’s work on axioms, and other 20th
>century mathematicians. I studied set theory in math, and again later in
>relational database theory. I read some of Badiou’s stuff on ontology and set
>theory, and didn’t find it satisfying at all. I read some of his writings that
>worked through a lot of set theory, but in the end, don’t gain any new
>understanding of the aspects of philosphy that interest me. I find myself
>agreeing with Zizek when he says that Badiou fails to “grasp the fundamental
>authentically philosophical insight.”
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>— Ed Wall wrote:
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>> Has anybody on the list read things by Alain Bidiou? He seems to be
>> doing mathematics and ontology. The mathematics seems a little weird
>> (at least, what I’ve read), but I’m more interested if he says
>> something useful. He is well known for something called Being and
>> Event.
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>> Ed Wall
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