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Yes. Precisely. Badiou repeatedly goes out of his way to confirm himself as a card carrying atheist. He insists that 'the one is not' and that 'there is no heaven of truths' (truths are immanent to the situation of the evental site).

The Truth-Knowledge distinction dates back at least to Plato. Badiou is largely a Platonist and Lacanian in certain vital ways. He's a little Sartrean also. The distinction had been closed off by the Enlightenment (Descartes et al) when the two categories blurred together under the umbrella of...