EXCERPT What distinguishes the One from Spinoza’s substance? —Letter from Deleuze to the author 1.1. By Philosophical Decision, I understand that whose essence encompasses existence to the nearest nothing, or indeed to the nearest non-existence, or indeed to the nearest difference, or indeed to the nearest Other, or indeed to the nearest negation of negation, etc., to the nearest Etc. In other words, that whose nature can be conceived only as existing to the nearest ‘to the nearest Etc.’…