Comprehending the interrelation of experienced facts shatters false realism

Evidence

It is objective ambiguity because the shift in my sensations and reflections responds to the manner in which the experienced facts are actually interrelated. But this interrelation, if comprehended, shatters the harmonizing consciousness and its false realism. Critical thought strives to define the irrational character of the established rationality (which becomes increasingly obvious) and to define the tendencies which cause this rationality to generate its own transformation. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 801

Categorization

• XREF: The critical-thought-as-comprehension move that grounds the reader’s whole critical theory project. — connects to: Truth about persons is grasped a priori, not discovered by empirical search — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1336; Realism is a form of paranoia that dehumanizes both nature and peoples — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 153; Concepts carry excess meaning that reveals the deceptiveness of immediate facts — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 426 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Understanding arises only from perceiving causal links among facts, not from the facts themselves #expands (0.82) — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition, 471
• Realist details persuade via metonymy and a borrowed air of observational fidelity. #complicates (0.80)
• Aesthetic failure at representing sense data reveals the referent realism cannot #qualifies (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 361