Theory of history is possible despite the uniqueness of historical facts

Evidence

Certainly the philosophy of praxis is realised through the concrete study of past history and through present activity to construct new history. But a theory of history and politics can be made, for even if the facts are always unique and changeable in the flux of movement of history, the concepts can be theorised. Otherwise one would not even be able to tell what movement is, or the dialectic, and one would fall back into a new form of nominalism. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1526

Categorization

• DEFINE: Gramsci’s defense of concept-formation against nominalism — facts are unique but concepts are theorizable, a foundational assumption for any critical-theory vocabulary.
• XREF: connects to: Metaphysics explains why this concrete world exists, as history explains particulars to sociology.; Lukács defended universal historical identity over particularity — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 120; Historical law-statements require generalizing away from unique facts (+2 more)