Perhaps negativity is an indexical operation - without being what makes indexicality possible. Determinate negation is an operation of bringing about concreteness through a specific denial of the abstract - abstract space determinately denied by a point. The operation is one of specifying something, making something concrete by bringing about an address in the space where indexicals directly point at (see Indexical Propositions below in this blog). To deny something is itself pointing at something and making it determinate, concrete. To make something concrete is to detach it from anything else - 'dedetermine' in the words of Tristan Garcia; that is, specify a thing out of the assemblage of objects. Just a thought.
I´ve been wondering about whether we can formulate something about contingency along the lines of a principle of irreduction: aucune chose n´est par elle-même contingent ou necessaire . The principle asserts that necessity is always contingent on underlying fixed things: something is physically necessary (or contingent) given the fixed laws of nature, something is deontically contingent - allowed - or necessary - mandatory - given the fixed ethical rules (or laws of the land). Finally, something is logically necessary (or necessary simpliciter) given a fixed logic. The irreducible diversity of ethical rules, the absence of eternal laws of nature and the plurality of logical systems, if accepted, makes necessity relative to those parameters. An aggiornamento of Heraclitus would have that nothing is necessary comes what may. Surely, of couse, if there is no absolute necessity, there is no absolute contingency. We can then say that in a broader, more abstract level, things are up for grab...
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