Universal truths are effective only when expressed in concrete situations’ language.

Evidence

It can further be deduced that every truth, even if it is universal, and even if it can be expressed by an abstract formula of a mathematical kind (for the sake of the theoreticians), owes its effectiveness to its being expressed in the language appropriate to specific concrete situations. If it cannot be expressed in such specific terms, it is a byzantine and scholastic abstraction, good only for phrasemongers to toy with. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 812

Categorization

• XREF: This principle — that theory must be re-articulated in local concrete terms — maps onto how Saidian concepts like Orientalism travel into specific national contexts in the Islamophobia literature. — connects to: Universal techniques exist only as incarnated in concrete individual acts