Talk:Multiplicity (philosophy)

message: 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)
thread_title: Various

message: What is the definition of "multiplicity"? What it says in the article--"Multiplicity is a philosophical concept that Edmund Husserl and Henri Bergson developed from Riemann's mathematical concept"--is not one. --Dan Polansky (talk) 11:18, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I've decided to be WP:BOLD and change the lead sentence.  Although I don't know what multiplicity means in this context (and also can't figure it out from reading the page), I find it hard to believe that anything matching this description is actually derived from mathematics.  Therefore I've edited the definition to say "by analogy".  Also, the concept of multiplicity in mathematics was around long before Riemann's work.  As well as this, I find it hard to believe in the phrase Bergson's theory of multiplicities distinguishes between two types of multiplicity: continuous multiplicities and discrete multiplicities (a distinction that he developed from Riemann)—I'm not aware of anything of this sort in Riemann's work—but without checking the Deleuze reference I'm hesitant to change that sentence. Jowa fan (talk) 12:07, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Definition

message: After both reading this article and other articles on the subject and thinking about it for a while here's the definition I came up with "Essentially multiplicity is the set of all the traits something has, including all the traits each trait has. The relationship each trait has with itself, others traits of the object, and the traits of other object, both in the past and the present, are all considered to be additional traits of the object. The word multiplicity is used both to explain the concept as well as any object which demonstrates this concept (everything.)"
The two pages that inspired, but did not state this definition, are http://proximities.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/what-is-a-multiplicity/ and http://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/5883/what-is-multiplicity-for-deleuze. 
Based on my reading I think my definition is accurate but I would like other people more versed on the subject to give me their views.
jph (talk) 18:08, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: My Understanding of multiplicity

message: What in tarnation is a geo-historical trajectory?  Can this be defined in this article, or does it necessitate it's own?  Even citing specific passages by Deleuze (or others) would be helpful.  Terms like this shouldn't just be tossed in.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.41.246.213 (talk) 02:42, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  First question that needs addressing: 

message: If someone wants to try again from scratch, they're certainly welcome to, but absolutely nothing about the Deleuze quote made sense out of context. I'm not sure that original writing by him or Guattari should ever be posted anywhere on the project, it's not comprehensible to anyone, I doubt they knew what any of the word salad they published meant.  - car chasm (talk) 03:49, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yeah this was nothing