Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:22:27 -0400 To: deleuze-guattari-AT-lists.driftline.org Subject: Re: [D-G] Close reading : Bergson's conception of difference [1 Filip wrote: >1)so atoms have a difference of degree if you consider there atomic weight ? >the difference of nature lies in the fact that when used in a reaction >the elements have different effects ? I am not clear on how two actual beings (such as two individual atoms, or two bacteria) can ever be said to differ only in degree. Is it possible? I can see how, if I am playing a radio station at the same time on two different radios, at different loudnesses, the two "playings" can be said to differ only in degree (of loudness). But even if the two "playings" (of the same music, say) happen at different times, there already, it seems to me, is a difference between them in something other than just degree - though I don't know if this "other" is what would be called "in nature". But in any case, if we are dealing with two different atoms of two different substances, wouldn't that which makes one be an atom of one substance and the other an atom of another substance be a matter of _internal_ difference - a difference in the internal structures of the atoms - and therefore definitely a difference _in nature_? And what if the atoms are of the same substance? They are still two different individuals. Of what type is then their difference? -m _______________________________________________ List address: deleuze-guattari-AT-driftline.org Info: http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/deleuze-guattari-driftline.org Archives: www.driftline.org
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