Plasticity is understood as a verbal and conceptual schema

Evidence

Flexibility is a vague notion, without tradition, without history, while plasticity is a concept, which is to say: a form of quite precise meanings that bring together and structure particular cases. This concept has a long philosophical past, which has itself remained too long in the shadows. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 59 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Plasticity and ‘to see coming’ function as operative motor-figures rather than thematic concepts. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 81; The schema is the plastic form mediating giving and receiving — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 68; Plasticity’s three determinations structure the modern character of self-consciousness and its self-determination. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 649 (+3 more)

Related

• Flexibility is an unrooted notion while plasticity is a historically grounded concept (similarity 0.92)
• Plasticity spans from rigid determination of form to total freedom from form (similarity 0.86)
• Plasticity spans a spectrum from fixed form to total malleability (similarity 0.86)
• Plasticity names the concept’s reflexive power to both give and receive its own figures (similarity 0.86)
• Plasticity and ‘to see coming’ function as operative motor-figures rather than thematic concepts. (similarity 0.86)
• Plasticity names the unity of spontaneity and receptivity in giving and receiving form (similarity 0.85)
• The word plastic denotes a dynamism of receiving and giving form (similarity 0.85)
• The schema is the plastic form mediating giving and receiving (similarity 0.84)
• Plasticity names the double capacity to receive and produce form (similarity 0.84)
• Hegel’s plasticity joins a capacity to receive form with a capacity to produce form (similarity 0.84)
• Plasticity also means the ability to change one’s own determination (similarity 0.84)
• Plasticity is not the same as polymorphous flexibility (similarity 0.84)
• Plasticity includes a closed sense of receiving a definitive, irreversible form. (similarity 0.84)
• Plasticity spans a graded range from determination to freedom (similarity 0.83)
• Plasticity spans both taking on form and annihilating it (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Flexibility is an unrooted notion while plasticity is a historically grounded concept #expands (0.82) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 59