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I am reading Difference and Repitition currently by Deleuze. In it he describes his metaphysics as subverting identity, and instead replacing how people could process the world as an endless series of differences in itself, with difference also being the Eternal Return (Repitition) via Nietzsche. However, without the use of identities in Deleuzian metaphysics, and considering Bergson as one of his influences is it fair to classify Deleuze as an intuitionist with his metaphysics? It seems to be at least superficially a tenant of his metaphysics as he also talks at length of subverting previous modes of thought such as classificationism or more specifically a correspondence theory of truth. Furthermore his metaphysics is described as transcenfental empiricism, whereas Bergson describes his bergsonian intuitionism as true empiricism, so there is also a nominal similarity here as well. Therefore, given these aspects, and maybe more reasons, is the Deleuzian Metaphysics as proposed in Difference and Repition a form of intuitionism?

TCoff
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    [Intuitionism](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/intuitionism-ethics/) has [multiple](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/intuitionism/) meanings, and the one that applies to Bergson is not a commonly used one. It is better to call it Bergsonism, as Deleuze did. The multiple commonalities are explored in Lundy's book [Deleuze's Bergsonism](https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/deleuzes-bergsonism/). Deleuze was a Bergsonian of sorts, but he was a post-modernist first, antithetical to the tradition to which Bergson belonged. – Conifold Apr 08 '23 at 03:25
  • So is that a "yes"? (Also, isn't the technical term "post-structuralist"? As it is a critique on structuralism which came before?) – TCoff Apr 08 '23 at 03:33
  • No, it is the term is too vague for the question to be answerable as asked. – Conifold Apr 08 '23 at 03:35
  • But Bergsonism is a form of intuitionism... – TCoff Apr 08 '23 at 03:37
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    How is it more complicated than that? – TCoff Apr 08 '23 at 04:09
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    it is reasonable to classify Deleuze's metaphysics in Difference and Repetition as a form of transcendental differential intuitionism, given its emphasis on direct experience, rejection of fixed identities, rejection of correspondence theory of truth and classificationism aligns with the intuitionist rejection of the idea that truth and knowledge can be reduced to fixed and objective standards. Thus its implication would not be *that* different from traditional Cartesian dualism though it's certainly has differance... – Double Knot Apr 08 '23 at 04:37
  • Thank you very much :) – TCoff Apr 08 '23 at 04:42
  • How does Deleuze from "differences" to "repetition". I don't see that link. – Frank Apr 08 '23 at 05:45
  • Repitition sustains the differentiation – TCoff Apr 08 '23 at 17:36

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