Multiplicity (philosophy)
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Multiplicities is a concept created, originally for mathematics, by Bernhard Riemann, and appropriated into a philosophy by Edmund Husserl and Henri Bergson.[1]
[edit] Deleuze's Philosophy
It was brought into contemporary use by Gilles Deleuze, often, for example, in A Thousand Plateaus. Multiplicities - they are always plural and are opposed to the dialectic between the One and the Multiple.
According to Deleuze in A Thousand Plateaus introduction, Multiplicities are not nouns, to people who would hypostase it.
Delueuze's quote was Vive le multiple!. One must then do it." The problem of One and Multiple and Deleuze's tentative to create multiplicities must not be reduced to a logical puzzle. Multiplicities do not belong to the sphere of representation, analyzed by Michel Foucault in The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences.
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- ^ "It was Riemann in the field of physics and mathematics who dreamed about the notion of 'multiplicity' and other different kinds of multiplicities. The philosophical importance of this notion then appeared in Husserl's Formal and Transcendental Logic, as well as in Bergson's Essay on the Immediate Given of Awareness. (Deleuze Foucault (1986), p. 13)
