Dialectical progression proceeds by leaps between unrelated materials

Evidence

And insofar as dialectical thinking characteristically involves a conjunction of opposites or at least conceptually disparate phenomena, it may truly be said of the dialectical sentence what the Surrealists said about the image, namely, that its strength increases proportionately as the realities linked are distant and distinct from each other. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 115 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

It is for this reason, I think—because in Germany the dialectic somehow speaks in its own name—that I have ordered these chapters around the sign of Discourse itself: for in the works they deal with, as already in Hegel, dialectical thought turns out to be nothing more or less than the elaboration of dialectical sentences. To give a little of the feeling of this sense of the movement of reality as a logos, I have resorted to the very terminology of linguistic figures themselves, of tropes and rhetoric, in which the operation of dialectical thought is viewed as a process or figure; or to that of a type of presence to and decipherment of experience which may be thought of as a hermeneutical exegesis of a text. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 16 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Dialectical thinking generates its categories from the content’s own inner logic. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 681; The dialectical sentence gains strength as the realities it links grow more distant — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 115; Dialectical thought is essentially the elaboration of dialectical sentences — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 16 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The dialectical sentence gains strength as the realities it links grow more distant #corroborates (0.95) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 115
• Dialectical thought is essentially the elaboration of dialectical sentences #expands (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 16