Badiou: A Subject to Truth

able accept active actual affirmation Alain Badiou appearing axiom axiomatic Badiou become begins belong calls Cantor chapter collection conceived conception concerned consequences considered consistent continuity counted course decision defined definition Deleuze difference Distance politique distinct effect elements empty essential established ethics event example existence experience fidelity figure finite force formal foundation fully given groups Heidegger human idea inconsistency individual infinite infinity instance kind knowledge Lacan language least less limit logic Marxism mathematics matter means merely multiple nature never notion object ontology operation organized particular philosophy political position possible precisely presented principle procedure provides pure question radical reality reason reference relation remains result sense set theory simply singular situation statement structure subsets subtraction takes things thought tion true truth ultimately understanding universe void whole writes Žižek