The world’s unity is material and shown through accumulated inquiry

Evidence

The real unity of the world consists in its materiality, and this is proved not by a few juggling phrases but by a long and tedious development of philosophy and natural science. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2749

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• DEFINE: Engels’ definition of materialism: world-unity is grounded in materiality, established not deductively but through the cumulative history of philosophy and science.

Related

• The world’s unity is material — one capitalist mode of production — not ideological. (similarity 0.81)
• History’s unity is a developing process, not a presupposition. (similarity 0.80)
• Every philosophy has confronted the problem of uniting theory and practice. (similarity 0.80)
• Theory-practice unity develops historically from an instinctive sense of difference (similarity 0.78)