Adapting Sedgwick’s axioms

First, a definition . . .

axiom: 1. a self-evident or universally recognized truth; maxim. 2. a principle that is accepted as true without proof; postulate. (American Heritage Dictionary)
And now, the seven axioms:

1. People are different from each other (22).

4. The immemorial, seemingly ritualized debates on nature versus nurture take place against a very unstable background of tacit assumptions and fantasies about both nature and nurture (40).

5. The historical search for a Great Paradigm Shift may obscure the present conditions of culture (44).

6. The relation of politicized studies to debates on the field’s aesthetic canon is, and had best be, tortuous (48).

7. The paths of allo-identification (identification-with) are likely to be strange and recalcitrant. So are the paths of auto-identification (identification-as) (59).