Negation, Nominalism, Pluralism

Common to Hegelianism and Marxism is the thesis that the word "negation" connotes a universal process. Now, that thesis is vulnerable to two objections. First, a Nominalist one, is that the word only denotes the terms of a transition, i. e. has no real referent independent of them. Second, a Pluralist one, is that, even granting the reality of a Nothingness in between the two terms, there is no proof that it is the same Nothingness in every transition. Thus, according to each objection, "negation" may be equivocal. That Nominalism and Pluralism can be effective remedies to conformist Ideology is plainly neglected by Marx-Engels in their repeated use of the word.