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is an anonymous function which leaves a trace of subject only in the third person, as a derived subject.

the subject is the product of phrases or dialectic and has the character of a first person with whom discourse begins, while the statement is an anonymous function which leaves a trace fo subject only in the third person, as a derived subject' D Foucault 15).

is concerned with the severe poetry of what is said, which subsumes both nonsense and the greatest profundities.

Perhaps, in this archeology, Foucault offers us. . . the severe poetry of what is said, which subsumes both nonsense and the greatest profundities' (D F 18).

is essentially rare. It is necessarily tied to a law and to an effect of rarity.

Even though they have no linguistic structure, they are statements. . . 'Foucault asserts that statements are essentially rare. . . they are necessarily tied to a law and an effect of rarity' (2). . .

is, for example, not the keyboard of a typewriter, but the representation of a typewriter's alphabetical order (its structure) in a typewriter manual.

the keyboard of a typewriter is not a statement: but the same series of letters, A, Z, E, R, T, listed in a typewriting manual, is the statement of the alphabetical order adopted by french typewriters' (quotes in Delueuze Foucalut 2).

is inseparable from a multiplicity that is both 'rare' and regular, but each statement is itself a multiplicity, not a structure or a system.

not only is each statement in this way inseparable from a multiplicity that is both 'rare' and regular, but each statement is itself a multiplicity, not a structure or a system' (6).

is like a dream and reality... a dream because they are transformed into a kaleidoscope based on the question and real because everything is real in the statement, and all reality in it is openly on display.

statements resemble dreams and are transformed as in a kaleidoscope, depending on the corpus in question'. . . but they also resemble reality because. . . ' everything is real in the statement, and all reality in it is openly on display' (D F 18).

is neither an utterance nor a proposition, neither a psychological nor a logical entity, neither an event nor an ideal form.

the statement is neither an utternace nor a proposition, neither a psychological nor a logical entity, neither an event nor an ideal form' (Dreyfus, Rabinow 45).

The statement is neither visible nor hidden' (foucault quoted in D Foucault 16).

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