Philosophical propositions destroy opinion by making it mean otherwise than intended

Evidence

This attitude and this opinion are destroyed by the philosophical content (of the proposition): opinion (die Meinung) comes to experience the fact that it means something other than it intended to mean (anders gemeint ist, als sie meinte); and this correction of its opinion compels knowing to go back to the proposition and understand it in some other way. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1214

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Defines the distinguishing trait of speculative propositions: they convert the reader’s own opinion against itself.
  • XREF: connects to: Linguistic philosophy advances an ideology that deletes critical concepts. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 662; Philosophical propositions dialectically preserve, suppress, and present their cancelled form; Philosophical language must interweave expression and communication, neither reducible to the other — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1014

Broader Connections