Multiplicity (philosophy)

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Multiplicities is a concept created by Gilles Deleuze, often used for example in A Thousand Plateaus (1980). Multiplicities - they are always plural - are opposed to the dialectic between the One and the Multiple. Multiplicities is not a noun, warns Deleuze in A Thousand Plateaus 's introduction, to whoever may hypostase it: "It is not enough to shout: Vive le multiple!. One must then do it." Thus, 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 (1966).