Dialectical thought is inherently comparative across heterogeneous operations

Evidence

The dialectical thinking through of a mathematical problem, for example, would involve, besides the awareness of the problem on its own terms, an implicit comparison between the way the mind felt performing the mathematical transaction and its feel during the experience of other, entirely different scientific and nonscientific operations. Dialectical thought is therefore profoundly comparative in its very structure, even in its consideration of individual, isolated types of objects; and the chapter sequence of the Phenomenology is merely the objective working out of the set of comparisons already inherent in it. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 103

Categorization

• XREF: This comparative structural claim connects to Adorno’s insistence that concepts only become determinate through what they are NOT — negative dialectics’ non-identity thinking. — connects to: Dialectical thought is self-reflexive thinking about thinking, unlike scientific objectivity — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 103; Negative dialectics theorizes why dialectical thinking is both indispensable and impossible; Dialectical insight transmutes contingency into necessity in a fleeting unified glimpse. (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Negative dialectics theorizes why dialectical thinking is both indispensable and impossible #expands (0.82)
• Dialectical insight transmutes contingency into necessity in a fleeting unified glimpse. #qualifies (0.72)
• Terminology confusion reveals an anti-dialectical, dogmatic cast of mind #complicates (0.70)