Hey Badiou, why you gotta give me a headache trying to connect mathematics and marxism? What does maths have to do with marxism? Ahhh.
"But are they [the true and the false] really two? We should be wary: in the categorial universe, difference is cunning and identity evasive. The true and the false are after all two arrows, two monomorphisms. Moreover, these elementary monomorphisms have the same source (I) and the same target (C). Can they not be, 'these' arrows, two names for the same act? We should then have a kind of rational scepticism, where truth-values superimpose (as in the thought of Nietzsche) their nominal duality upon an identical principle of power."
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@sim I think he's saying that since true and false can be thought of as monomorphism between with the same two source (think functions with the same domain and codomain) you are free think of them as the same function. This is however, retarded, so charity would suggest some other meaning. I have no idea what he means by nominal duality, maybe a single thing with two names? Mathematically, this is not what I would call a duality, it's more of a singularity, isn't it? Does principle of power refer to the power a notion of truth has? So is an identical principle of power an alternative but similarly useful notion of truth? How degenerate to arbitrarily reference category theory in this context.
@mandlebro You have a better idea than I do but then I don't have much context for the subjects that it discusses so it looks like the nonsense machine to me. Haha.
