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Concepts and metaphilosophy
Posted: January 23, 2011 at 8:57 pm | Tags: Concepts, definition, metaphilosophyfrom wikipedia. Mye memo.
Concepts and metaphilosophy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept
A long and well-established tradition philosophy posits that philosophy itself is nothing more than conceptual analysis. This view has its proponents in contemporary literature as well as historical. According to Deleuze and Guattari’s What Is Philosophy? (1991), philosophy is the activity of creating concepts. This creative activity differs from previous definitions of philosophy as simple reasoning, communication or contemplation of universals. Concepts are specific to philosophy: science creates “functions”, and art “sensations”. A concept is always signed: thus, Descartes’ Cogito or Kant’s “transcendental”. It is a singularity, not universal, and connects itself with others concepts, on a “plane of immanence” traced by a particular philosophy. Concepts can jump from one plane of immanence to another, combining with other concepts and therefore engaging in a “becoming-Other.”
