Gilles Deleuze’s Ontology of Sense

This paper examines Gilles Deleuze’s critics and contributions to the Theory of Sense. Considering sense as a phenomenon of language, Deleuze revises the traditional philosophical understanding of the sense. According to him, sense is the pure event of the proposition. Sense has a special ontological status and maintains very special relations with nonsense. For Deleuze, sense cannot exist outside the proposition, but it is not exactly within it; sense is the transcendent condition of the proposition that exists before and after it. Sense is the fourth dimension of the proposition that comes along with its other functions such as denotation, manifestation, signification. Sense takes place in the structures formed by the interaction of the two series where one is the signifier and the other is the signified. According to Deleuze, random, and irregular structure with no center cannot determine sense. On the contrary, the structure is constructed by sense and thus becomes coherent