Singularities and the inductive method

Inductive logic seems to me to be the bridge built by Eros (the principle behind coherent abstract thought) between infantile intellectual dependency on the parents and the state of achieved adult independence from the parental figures (between the pleasure principle and the reality principle, in a sense).

To fail to develop inductive logic is to fall back into a world of singularities. In such a world, there can be only one of any particular thing, with nothing else sufficiently ressembling it enough to acquire the label of being "the same". It is with this awareness in mind that Bataille rails against the limitations of the "I" that is adopted when we take up language (and thus take up the linguistic logic that has inductive reasoning as its underlying principle. He finds this "I" to be servile and lacking in the sovereignty that comes from being a singularity -- a thoroughly individual self. Bataille, however, is also keen to use language effectively, to convey, if possible, this sense of lack he feels in having to imply that his identity is general and universalisable. The implicit logic of language, which is the inductive method of knowing, makes him seem to himself to be one out of all too many generalisable human entities, rather than the singularity that he knows he is.

To keep in mind the two different modes of being that are implied by crossing the bridge from the pre-Oedipal position into language is to maintain a shamanistic position in relation to the world.

However, there are those who descend into primitive irrationalism. They determine to see the world only in terms of singularities, and refuse the intellectual processes of inductive reasoning as being too alienating for them to accept.

Thus, they assure that they only ever encounter: one fuhrer, one nation, one folk.