A parting note...

"Although it may be dangerous for philosophy to depend on the generosity of logicians, or on their regrets, we might wonder whether a precarious balance cannot be found between scientifico-logico concepts and phenomenological-philosophical concepts. Gilles-Gaston Granger has suggested a distribution in which the concept, being determined first of all as a scientific or logical concept, nonetheless allows a place for philosophical functions in a third but autonoums zone, for functions or significations of the lived as virtual totality (fuzzy sets seem to play the role of a hinge between the two forms of concepts). Science has thereofre arrogated the concept to itself, but there are nevertheless nonscientific, that is to say, phenomenological concepts that are tolerated in homeopathic doses - hence the strangest hybrids of Frego-Husserlianism, or even Wittgensteino-Heideggerianism, that we see springing up today. This has long been the situtation of philosophy in America, with a large department of logic and a very small one of phenomenology, even though the two parts were usually at war. It is like the proverbial lark pie containing one lark and one horse. But the phenomenological lark is not even the most exquisite portion; it is only what the logical horse sometimes leaves for philosophy. The situation is more like the rhinoceros and the bird that lives on its parasites"

Deleuze & Guattari What is Philosophy? (143, my emphasis)



Says it all really. Glueboot out.

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