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The mirage of philosophical systems is to exhaust the whole plain of consistence. There always exist diverse modes of arrangement among its elements, of establishing planes on the ground of a given orography. It is the illusion of a static order, of a definitive instalment, undisturbed by other areas of knowledge, by other processes of sedimentation and erosion that amount to general changes in the noetic space. Systems act as if their central concepts would remain identical, not modifiable. All elements acquire a stable link, mediated by the central concepts, by the highest elevations that are the last ones to be completely coffined, buried, or erosioned, and achieve a compacity, a solidity, that impedes further restructuration, modulation, or morphogenesis.

The madman might be too early there, might probably be nowhere, his statography devoid of any solid soil, of any plateau or riff on which to rest, on the abyss. No order of elements affords this incorporation. What distinguishes him from the actual transformation of ideas is that these suppose a rather stable grounding in the actual noetic space and their connection with certain elements that make it recognizable but that are redistributed and combined also with peripheric areas of knowledge, provinces suddenly suffering an approachment, a reacroachment. Thus these novel combinations do not occur in the preexisting plain but require from a construction to be rendered coherent. They compose novel distributions, concentrations and dispositions that authors aim at rendering consistent and thus appear as novatores, they are but mutations, anomalies, aberrations, their conditions of possibilty, already present. Otherwise they remain illusionists, charlatans or simple fools, constructing remote planes, vain systems, castles in the air. Not only do ideas spread in a memetical sense, with a certain level of degradation, of noise, but they install a system of connections and references to other, apparently alien, areas of knowledge. It is the general incorporation of the system what allows criss-cross references and an activity in the plane of construction.

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