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The logic of sense

By Gilles Deleuze

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I haven't read the main part, but it contains a highly interesting appendix on Plato's notorious division dialogues (the Sophist and the Statesman. He argues that: (1) The division is not a way of classifying things into groups and subgroups, but a way of separating the true nature of ... (continue)

I haven't read the main part, but it contains a highly interesting appendix on Plato's notorious division dialogues (the Sophist and the Statesman. He argues that: (1) The division is not a way of classifying things into groups and subgroups, but a way of separating the true nature of the thing under investigation from its unreal appearances. Now this is a very political reading it seems to me, since this implies that Plato is trying to indicate not only that popular notions about the sophist are imperfect to the extent that they contain too many sophist images in them and requires purification, but also that even with a right opinion about who is a sophist, a cheater on his part can still exploit that opinion to claim himself to be or not to be a sophist. (2) A point that follows is that Aristotle's critique of Plato's bifurcation method makes no sense and one should be careful of reading Aristotelian's genus-species scheme into diaeresis. (3) Division should be understood as part and parcel of dialectic just as the famous myth in the Statesman is part and parcel of dialectic. Deleuze almost shows us how to read Plato in an anti-Platonic, but fundamentally Platonic and non-Derrideanly-deconstructive way. Highly recommended.

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