Talk:Multiplicity (philosophy)

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Nobody could possibly get even a rough idea of what "multiplicity" (as used by Deleuze) is supposed to mean by reading this article. Also, please make it clear if and when authors are being directly quoted, and cite sources. Dbtfz 20:46, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

• Agreed. I have no idea what this article is talking about. Yvh11a 18:24, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes, not a very well made page.

Deleuze actually borrowed the word Multiplicity from Henri Bergson[[1]] (Matter and Memory, Creative Evolution), and although it is usually translated as Multiplicity in English books (From French, Multiplicités) the way the term is used is actually often thought to be closer in meaning to the mathematical term 'Manifold'[2] which is a topological space in which each point has a neighborhood that is homeomorphic to an open set in a Euclidean space of specified dimension.Stuart Milgram 12:59, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Aye, it's fairly crucial that multiplicity means, most simply, manifold (God help us when manifolds are the most simple way of understanding something). Deleuze never gives a straight-up definition (so, analytic philosophers should probably... defenestrate themselves, like our boy Gilles).

This page is pretty terrible... but I can hardly blame the poor bugger that wrote it. I started writing one just now, but it's difficult to do without writing an essay (rather than encyclopedia entry). Whilst, obviously, it needs a paragraph or two introduction, I can't see how it's explicable without a 'maybe think of it like this...' part, followed by some explanation of why Deleuze developped the concept, where he developped it from &c.

Well, hopefully stick something up soon. Baadog 1:07, 01 February 2007