BADIOU’S LADDER (2): Poetry – truth procedures as conceptual characters

AGENT SWARM

In my previous post I discussed Badiou’s method of taking one particular truth procedure, in his case mathematics, and proceding by a form to guided abduction to elaborate speculative hypotheses at the more general philosophical level (noetic ascent) that could then be tested by a process of investigation within any of the four truth procedures (noetic descent). The particular experimental montage differs for each of the truth procedures.

Note: I am indebted to a discussion with Serge Druon for helping me clarify my ideas on this point.

This analysis supports my argument that mathematics has no privilege here, that we do not have to start with mathematics, and that we could take any of the other truth procedures as our starting point.

For example, poetry.

Thus the four truth procedures are not items in an epistemic hierarchy, but rather co-equal conceptual characters in a dramaturgy of ascent and descent

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