Dialectical thinking contradicts vulgar common sense’s demand for certainties.

Evidence

The second origin would appear to be psychological. It is felt that the dialectic is something arduous and difficult, in so far as thinking dialectically goes against vulgar common sense, which is dogmatic and eager for peremptory certainties and has as its expression formal logic. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1549

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘common sense’ as dogmatic, eager for peremptory certainties, expressed in formal logic — a recurring Gramscian term that later theory builds on.
• XREF: This ‘common sense’ concept is central to Gramsci’s hegemony theory, which Islamophobia scholars invoke to explain how racist frames become ordinary. — connects to: Dialectical prose demands every proposition be equally close to the centre — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 83; Thinking must hold dialectic and its opposite together at once — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 170; Skeptical dialectic shows equal necessity for contradictory determinations, yielding nullity — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1122