Dialectical analysis shows each isolated generalization contradicts its object

Evidence

Instead of ranging attributes alongside one another, it seeks to show, by analysis of each general characteristic in respect to the particular object, that this generalization taken by itself simultaneously contradicts the object, and that in order to be properly comprehended it must be related to the contrary property and finally to the whole system of knowledge. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 729

Categorization

• DEFINE: A compact statement of the core dialectical move — that a generality taken alone contradicts its particular subject and must be paired with its contrary.
• XREF: connects to: Dialectical analysis sees a thing through awareness of what it is not; Negative dialectics replaces unity with what lies outside conceptual domination — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2534; Dialectical thinking requires abstraction from existing forms to form general concepts. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 12

Broader Connections

• Negative dialectics replaces unity with what lies outside conceptual domination #expands (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2534
• Dialectical thinking requires abstraction from existing forms to form general concepts. #qualifies (0.70) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 12