Historical change forces theorists to invent new, more concrete concepts
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- Ideologues claiming the key to reality must adapt to every new event (similarity 0.90)
- Abolished theoretical concepts recurrently return in reconfigured forms. (similarity 0.89)
- Analyzing power requires simultaneously reworking both theory and historical method (similarity 0.87)
- Specific meaning arises only from an arbitrary contingent break (similarity 0.86)
- Transformative change is gradual within continuities, not clean breaks (similarity 0.86)
- Ideological change happens through class struggle, not through ideas alone (similarity 0.86)
- Postmodernism may be the same epoch as modernism, not a radical break. (similarity 0.86)
- The concept of ideology was born torn between historical relativism and universal truth. (similarity 0.85)
- Cultural meaning shifts with the social field it enters (similarity 0.85)
- Hegemony must be won before power is seized, not merely imposed by force after (similarity 0.85)
- A discourse both enables and constrains how a topic can be constructed (similarity 0.85)
- The dialectic is the marrow of historiography and political science, not formal logic. (similarity 0.85)
- Colin McGinn argues consciousness is a mystery that human intelligence will never unravel, as the hard problem of qualia cannot be resolved by humans. (similarity 0.85)
- A philosophy’s historical impact is measured by its sediment in common sense. (similarity 0.85)
- Sinn precedes meaning as the horizon of possibilities (similarity 0.85)