Reaching the concrete in thought requires successive abstractions that add conditions of existence.
Evidence
The movement to another level of magnification (to deploy the microscope metaphor) requires the specifying of further conditions of existence not supplied at a previous, more abstract level: in this way, by successive abstractions of different magnitudes, to move toward the constitution, the reproduction , of “the concrete in thought” as an effect of a certain kind of thinking. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 199
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Clarifies what Marx’s ‘concrete in thought’ means — the target of successive abstraction.
Related
- Moving from mode of production to concrete analysis requires new concepts and added determinations. (similarity 0.82)
- Abstraction is the essential instrument for revealing structures invisible to direct observation (similarity 0.80)
- Dialectical thinking requires abstraction from existing forms to form general concepts. (similarity 0.79)
- The concrete enables one reality to be translated into multiple codes and dimensions (similarity 0.79)