15 Mar 2015

Making a hole in knowledge

An irrevocable step forward has been made through the critique of earlier concepts of the subject, which is thoroughly based on the notion that truth is not a qualification of knowledge nor an intuition of the intelligible. One must come to conceive of truth as making a hole in knowledge.

Alain Badiou, 'On a Finally Objectless Subject' in Topoi 7 (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988) p.94

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