On Jul 28, 2009, at 7:20 PM, // ravi wrote:
> It is strange for me to read Badiou tying up all the rigorous
> mathematics of Cantor, Peano, Russell, and particulary Frege, with
> all this talk of Greek One, Being, etc. It may just be me, but the
> efforts of these mathematicians seemed to me a diametrically
> opposite programme i.e., start from some minimalistic syntactic
> notions and attempt to expand on them (I write this despite knowing
> that Euclid is credited with the axiomatic method). Which reminds me
> of our earlier discussion about Chomsky. Anyway, I am rambling...
I think that Jeffrey kind of connected with my experience, but it might just have been the self-indulgent winging, which is my favorite form. Are all of you reading english translations?
martin