The Being of Number 65 exclusively to mathematics and points to those instances where it mani- fests itself as a resource of being within the confines of a particular situa- tion: the ontological or mathematical situation. Where the thinking of Number is concerned, we must abandon not only Frege’s approach but also the respective approaches of Peano, Russell and Wittgenstein. The project started by Dedekind and Cantor must be radica- lized, exceeded, pushed to the point of its dissolution. There is no deduction of Number, but no induction of it either, Language and perceptual experience prove to be inoperative guides where Number is concerned. It is simply a question of being faithful to whatever portion of the inconsistent excess of being, to which our thought occasionally binds itself, comes to be inscribed as a consistent historical trace in the simultaneously interminable and eternal movement of mathematical transformation.