Arguing against Empiricism's main epistemological claim that "everything finds its origin in the sensible and in the operations of the mind upon the sensible" Deleuze finds in Hume "a model of the genesis of subjectivity" (Delanda, 2006). Deleuze in his text on Hume (1972) writes about Hume's great inversion that places empiricism in a higher power: "if ideas contain nothing other and nothing more than what is contained in the sensory impressions, it is precisely because relations are external and heterogeneous to their terms. ...The real empiricist world is thereby laid out for the first time to the fullest: it is a world of exteriority, a world in which thought itself exists in a fundamental relationship with the Outside, a world in which terms are veritable atoms and relations veritable external passages; a world in which the conjunction 'and' dethrones the interiority of the verb 'is'" (Deleuze, Hume p.38)
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