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In this chapter, Hegel first informs us that each thing has a specific quantum on which its quality depends. In the second section, he first considers “the rule,” which is quickly dismissed as an arbitrary, external measure. He then takes up the issue of how the specific measure of things is quantitatively specified in a ratio. This consideration shows that this ratio ultimately expresses the measure relation of two material things. He then switches to the consideration of the ratios that measure motion , in which the relationship of time and space come into play. From this consideration, he deduces the conception of measure as a being-for-itself, which somehow repels itself into two material things, each one of which has a specific real or materially determined measure.
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Tabak, M. (2017). Specific Quantity. In: The Doctrine of Being in Hegel’s Science of Logic. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55938-4_8
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