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In the article I argue that the claim for generality belongs to the essence of philosophy. The problem with this formulation lies in the fact that there is no single understanding of generality. One of the oldest understandings of generality identifies it with abstraction. In the text, using the example of algebra, I show how much this way of thinking has developed in mathematics. Then I point to other - non-formal and non-abstract - understandings of generality in Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida. I conclude by formulating the conclusion that philosophy, of course here only some variety of it, not every philosophy, produces a new understanding of generality, but since none of them can be considered final, and therefore philosophy’s claim to generality has not been satisfied, philosophy is in effect in a permanent crisis.