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Difference (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a state of being that is radical and embodies real change.

Difference (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠deserving of its own concept.

Difference (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not conceived 'negatively' as the 'lack' of resemblance, but productively, as that which drives a dynamical system -the differences in 'pressure' 'speed' 'temperature' which are the key to genesis of inorganic crystals or organic plants and animals.

Difference (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not secondary to identity (i.e. X is different than y), but rather identities (I..E. X) are effects of difference (i.e. X arises out of an endless series of differences of which y is one).

Difference (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not to be confused with distinction, opposition, or contradiction. It is not when something that is true of one thing is not true of the other. Rather, it is when two things, fitting in no common class, somehow fall together into a kind of 'neighboring'.

Difference (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠entirely reliant on repetition to produce its effects of opposition, resemblance, identity, and analogy.

Difference (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠that by which the given is given'... that is, difference exist within the intensive field of depth, which is generative of extensity. Thus, difference, as the differential form of intensity, gives rise to diversity by a process of explication. That is, as intensive force finds itself actualized within an extensive system, the unindividuated differential relations give way to relations between bodies external to one another.