Dissenting critique targets systemic anomalies rather than individual scholarly findings

Evidence

The dissenting author transcends the critique of individual projects of scholarship as such, which is to say that when she advances a critique, and when the work of individual scholars is subjected to criticism, it is not to critique these scholar’s specific findings but rather to illustrate a major problem, an anomaly, within the system or within the discursive “tradition” in which they are writing. Clearly, key here is the word within. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 339

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes the dissenting author from the docile one by what the critique targets: systemic anomaly, not individual error.