ABSTRACT

This chapter explores the metaphysical implications of truthmaker theory and show how Deleuze's metaphysical project provides for the realism that truthmaker theory calls for. In continental philosophy, there has also been a return to metaphysics. After decades of pursuing a post-Kantian styled anti-realism, as found most notably in the Heideggerean and post-structuralist critique of the metaphysical project. Deleuzean argument that does address the Humean problem but in a way that embraces Wilson's call for a metaphysical indeterminacy. For Deleuze, difference-makers provide the non-propositional restraint in that they are the conditions presupposed by the Peircean ideal theory. The difference-maker is the indeterminate condition for all determinate phenomena, and for the process of further differentiation and transformation of phenomena. According to Benardete, and Deleuze draws the same conclusion, author argue, is that the infinitesimal or difference-maker is not to be confused with the processes and procedures identify with extensive magnitudes.