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Phenomenology and Iconicity in Badiou’s Logics of Worlds

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Iconicity and Abduction

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Is it possible to extend in an abductive manner the specifically iconic dimension of the mathematical modeling of reality implicit in Badiou’s austerely binary ontology? To a certain extent, Badiou himself has already done so.

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Caterina, G., Gangle, R. (2016). Phenomenology and Iconicity in Badiou’s Logics of Worlds . In: Iconicity and Abduction. Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, vol 29. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44245-7_5

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