A new science earns credibility by resolving or disproving its rivals’ core questions.

Evidence

A new science proves its efficacy and vitality when it demonstrates that it is capable of confronting the great champions of the tendencies opposed to it and when it either resolves by its own means the vital questions which they have posed or demonstrates, in peremptory fashion, that these questions are false problems. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1542

Categorization

• XREF: Carries forward into Islamophobia scholarship: new critical vocabularies must demonstrate their value against the strongest opposing positions, not anecdotes. — connects to: A new science must defeat its strongest intellectual opponents to prove itself

Broader Connections

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