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"There are no simple concepts. Every concept has components and is defined by them.  It therefore has a combination [//chiffre//]. It is a multiplicity, although not every multiplicity   is conceptual...   Not only do Descartes, Hegel, and Feuerbach not begin   with the same concept,   they do not have the same concept of beginning...   Every concept has an irregular   contour defined by the sum of its components,   which is why,   from Plato to Bergson,   we find   the idea of the concept being a   matter of articulation,   of cutting and   cross-cutting.   The concept is a whole because it totalizes   its components, but it is   a fragmentary whole.   Only on this condition can it escape the   mental chaos   constantly threatening it, stalking it, trying to reabsorb it." -- Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, //What is Philosophy?//, pp. 15-16. SYLLABUS