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Badiou

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I Think It's Interesting to Think About the Two Philosophical Ideas That Emerge in Mathematics

Set theory and mathematics being at the center is it gives us grounding to be able to talk about both like like highly dynamic states that are at the center of his philosophy. He's a thinker who flips between these almost like manic states where nothing means anything and then or like anything can happen. People in the humanities tend to know nothing about mathematics i was talking to my friend Ken Reinhardt who was a co- translator of the imminence of truths. We're doing an episode on him I think maybe three if you how you count, he says. Slavoy critiqued him and made him such a central figure worthy of being translated  i'm even sure that bad news books

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