Generality in Leibniz (contd.)

0:00 So when do you want me to enumerate these things? I live my life like your life. You live your life like your life. You don't give me a deadline to give you an answer. There's enough to teach you an answer. Okay. I'm going to put that in the library. I mean, just something like a moment could lead to three hundred and fifty minutes. I have to say that again. Okay. Okay, great. I got my machine. I tried to have the last bite of the cherry, but I'm sorry I wasn't able to get it across the stage. The point, I must have been expressing myself very confused a bit, but I absolutely agree with what Renaud was saying, that you have two distinct, quite distinct factors for characterisation of generality centred broadly speaking on methods and on objects, but my point was that both Leibniz and Aristotle, we share precisely the commitment that you pointed out to, that things... ...are known to be, or are perceived to be, unified in themselves. I mean, ultimately, neither of them could tolerate that as well, and therefore the issue of how one deals with partial unifications, which themselves bring in their trade, a radical revision of the very content of the notion of radical revision... Both in method and in object is something which I think is addressed very differently if you're a modern, dare I say it, a modern structuralist in the way that it's been addressed by Linus or Aristotle because the whole conception of ontology as a product has become completely displaced.

2:30 The idea that there is some unified conception of the world as a special unity in terms of the interrelations of the factors within which one will have an important character at some time makes the reality is something which is just not problematic. He just said it was problematic, rightly, because just as far as it is said that he is committed to that, he is committed to the ultimate theme of unity. Which you can't take it all apart now if you're dealing with life. I'm sorry, that's crazy, but there's tactics, I think you're right, there's tactics that suggest that anything further than that is sometimes better than either mathematics or mathematics.

5:00 I'm just throwing those out as possibilities. I'm saying there certainly wouldn't have been possibilities without a thought given here. And I think, unless you're really going to... It may be a useful, um, it may be a useful trope, but I don't think it's going to be historical to start and try to understand it like that. Yeah, I very, I think you're right, but I think they're very much at the level of methods. Well, I think Leibniz is an incredible, you don't mind I'm so tough and so fertile, but you can't expect him to be entirely consistent. Absolutely, the method of the... Oh, it's great, thanks, lovely to see you and lovely to meet you, Ronald. Thank you for my very best wishes. I'm very excited to party around for this thing. There's no chance that we're going to be in Boston. It's only two days. It's all going to be videos and hopefully we'll eventually have it on the website. It's the 30th of November to the 3rd, which is the Friday to the Monday. In fact all the talks are going to be on the Saturday, the 1st and the 2nd. It might be a bit difficult. You're not going to go to Hawking tonight, are you? Um, not tonight. I'm going to stay in Paris tonight. Because I've got to do stuff there. I've got to go to Pompidou, I've got to go to Parma. I actually live in Britain, in a little town called Pompidou, which is a lovely old town that exists in the middle of the Tartan River. It's about 30 miles from here. It is? It certainly beats living where I was in London, of course. It's not isolated, it's quite a substantial town, and it's only half an hour's drive from there.

7:30 Sun? Sen? What? S-E-N-S? I don't know. I've never heard of Sen. I suspect not, because I don't recognize the name of the place. It might be very small. I don't recognize Sen. I'm right on the top. So it's almost in Normandy, in fact. It's only six kilometers from there. What's that big contact there? There's... Ah, that's possibly Céline Céline, which is actually in Normandy. No, no, no, it's really in Florence and Francis. Oh, I wonder what that is then. I don't know that. No, I don't know that. Well, they have philosophy content. I don't know that. If you do, please just send me an email. I'd like to know about those things.

15:00 What Emilie pointed out, I think very nicely, is that these guys have a very specific conception of what objects are. Oh yes, yes, great. It's good to add all points here. It's a very, very strong mechanism of background for the notion of objects. Incidentally, as there is, of course, tacitly in other writers, where one doesn't normally reflect on just how, how extreme a song... The fact that some of them are involved in the constitution of the notion of elliptic drama, which was quite surprising what that article that I sent you a little paper by Maruzzi about, I took to you the kind of metaphysical thrust of that article.

17:30 No, I'm actually going to walk from here. Okay, lots to talk about. It's good to see you. I'm going to get back here for the thing on the 19th century. And I'll be around and hold that week for the airport. Thank you very much for your time, and I look forward to seeing you again soon. Thank you again. See you around.