A single phrase can hold contradictory temporal meanings simultaneously
Evidence
‘At the same time’ emphasizes the power of language, others would say, the genius inscribed in such and such play with language, the capacity or the aptitude to conjugate in itself two contradictory meanings at the same time, in the same stroke, within the same time, all at once and in one time. More than one time at the same time – and these times (fois, feiz, vices) are also successions of strokes, they are all ‘plays’. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 54
Categorization
- DEFINE: Explains why the idiom ‘at the same time’ matters: it literally enacts the conjunction of contradictory temporalities the whole book theorizes.
- XREF: connects to: A conjuncture fuses distinct contradictions of different tempos — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1094; Contradictory perceptions can both be true simultaneously — , A Year of World Stories, 4077; Time is not identical to itself but differentiates and temporalizes itself — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 254 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Word identity and meaning are effects of paradoxical sameness within repetition.
#expands(0.78) - A conjuncture fuses distinct contradictions of different tempos
#expands(0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1094 - Constancy and event are mutually exclusive yet complementary ways of identifying time
#expands(0.75) - Time is not identical to itself but differentiates and temporalizes itself
#expands(0.72) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 254 - Events and constancies are mutually exclusive yet mutually defining
#expands(0.72) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 117 - Contradictory perceptions can both be true simultaneously
#exemplifies(0.70) — , A Year of World Stories, 4077