Language’s equivocity is a primordial nativity the concept cannot erase.

Evidence

The material which speculative thought starts from is the apparently non-speculative nature of language. This is by no means to be banished. Indeed it must be welcomed unconditionally. The equivocity imported into speculation as its non-speculative ancestry is primordial and innate. The philosopher must accept it, think it and think in it. The non-speculative origin of the speculative is formed by a ‘naïveté’ – a nativity – which the concept can neither suppress nor erase. To speak a language is always to experience a fall. One falls into a language; this straight away returns us to the chance that is birth. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1154

Categorization

• XREF: Strongly echoes the passivity/receptivity strand in the plasticity analysis — the thinking subject must first fall into an inherited language before any giving of form; relates to reader’s MOC thread about the conditions that convert receptivity into agency.