Nov 10, 2007

Badiou speaking in New York

Alain Badiou is speaking at Law and Event, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Nov 11 & Nov 12. It's a public event. [link].

Followup

I went to Badiou's keynote this morning. He produced a handout entitled "A formalized presentation of the three meanings of negation", with the following symbols:

~ : negation

^ : and

v : or

[] : it is possible that...

P: a sentence

And this table

LogicsNon-ContradictionExcluded middle
Classical~(P ^ ~P)(P v ~P)
Intuonistic~(P ^ ~P)[] ~(P v ~P)
Para-consistent[](P ^ ~P)(P v ~P)

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