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Daniel W. Smith - Deleuze's The Fold

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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The Impossible and the Possible

I don't know if it'd be maybe a good starting point to just discuss incompossibility broadly because I think it was even I think more nuance that I had kind of assumed. So the possible and the impossible has to do with mathematics and essences. And yet Caesar crossing the Rubicon is not an impossibility. He could have not crossed the Rubicon but he happened to cross the Rubicon. If you keep it in this world where you have all these problems, but if it's true in all possible worlds, well then you can still have this old notion of truth Where falsity is no longer means something that is not true. That doesn't mean science progresses from moving from one fals

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