Immanence & Transcendence: An Explanation of the Deleuzian Ontology Paradigm

Space is a Field of Transcendence and Time a Point of Immanence (the Now) in "Being" ;

The ever-changing and the fixated cycling between the Virtual and the Actual

Godel's Incompleteness Theorum  Expressed in Ontological Terms

"Transcendence is always a Product of Immanence (from Multiplicities)"

...."Immanence is not related to Some thing as a unity superior to all things or to a Subject as an act that brings about a synthesis of things"

Transcendence is "a pure stream of a-subjective consciousness, a pre-reflexive impersonal consciousness, a qualitative duration of consciousness without a self"

"No more than the transcendental field is defined by consciousness can the plane of immanence be defined by a Subject or an Object that is able to contain it."

On Transcendental Empiricism: "it is, rather, however close these two sensations may be, the passage from one to the other as becoming, as increase or decrease in power (virtual quantity)"

"We will say of pure immanence that it is A LIFE, and nothing else. It is not immanence to life, but the immanent that is in nothing is itself a life. A life is the immanence of immanence, absolute immanence: it is complete power, complete bliss. (...) it is an absolute immediate consciousness whose very activity no longer refers to a being but is ceaselessly posed to a life"

"Time is a Child Playing" - Heraclitus

The in-between of moments: "This indefinite life does not itself have moments, close as they may be one to another, but only between-times, between-moments; it doesn't just come about or come after but offers the immensity of an empty time where one sees the event yet to come and already happened, in the absolute of an immediate consciousness"

"Events or singularities give to the plane all their virtuality, just as the plane of immanence gives virtual events their full reality."

"My wound existed before me; not a transcendence of the wound as a higher actuality, but its immanence as a virtuality always within a milieu (plane or field)"

"sensation is only a break within the flow of absolute consciousness"

On A Life: "The One is not the transcendent that might contain immanence but the immanent contained within a transcendental field. One is always the index of a multiplicity; an event, a singularity, a life..."  (aka the "unit" of Greek mathematics [not a number])

"If One is not, then Nothing is" - Plato, "Parmenides"

"Purely actual objects do not exist." - Gilles Deleuze

Pure Movement is the condition of Representation and Representation is merely a special aspect of movement, its' actual limit.

"These virtuals vary in kind as well as in their degree of proximity from the actual particles by which they are both emitted and absorbed. They are called the virtual in so far as their emission and absorption, creation and destruction, occur in a period of time shorter than the shortest constinuous period imaginable."

Space is a subset of Time

The Present is a Special Case of the Past

"the virtual images delimit a continuum, whether one takes all of the circles together or each individually, a spatium determined in each case by the maximum of time imaginable"


"The perpetual exchange between the virtual and the actual is what defines a crystal."

"The plane of immanence includes both the virtual and its actualization simultaneously, without there being any assignable limit between the two."

"The actual falls from the plane like a fruit, whilst the actualization relates it back to the plane."

"The two aspects of time, the actual image of the present which passes and the virtual image of the past which is preserved, are distinguishable during actualization although they have unassignable limits, but exchange during crystallization to the extent that they become indiscernible, each relating to the role of the other."

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