Pure negation cannot sustain a collective will without implicit construction

Evidence

Contrary to appearances, binary schemas serve not only to separate but also to unite opposites. They facilitate the shift from one definition of the situation to its opposite by requiring no more than a negation, the admittance of which can be regulated in the system – a technique of paradoxical integration. There is a closer connection between truth and untruth than between truth and love, for instance. Above all, such a principle of binary integration can be abstracted, made specific and universal, while the connections between different media-codes (truth/love, power/money) would have to be regulated much more concretely and in terms much more specific to each situation, because neither exclusion nor interconnection can be asserted as being of general validity. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 662 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Binary codes unite opposites by regulated negation rather than merely separating them — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 662; Binary schematization’s completeness claim masks the imposition behind any dichotomy; Expectation constitutes real absence while gratuitous negation stays merely abstract (+3 more)

Related

• Binary codes unite opposites by regulated negation rather than merely separating them (similarity 0.88)
• Each societal subsystem’s binary code is imposed and presupposes completeness. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Binary codes unite opposites by regulated negation rather than merely separating them #complicates (0.82) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 662
• Binary schematization’s completeness claim masks the imposition behind any dichotomy #complicates (0.78)