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A major goal of the Logic is to account for determinateness.1 Determinateness denotes a unity of being and nothing – a presence and an absence.2 Determinateness arises because Dialectical Reason invokes history against the Understanding. This history was present, but now is not. The sublated past is the determinate nothing to which present Being refers.
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© 2007 David Gray Carlson
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Carlson, D.G. (2007). Determinate being. In: A Commentary to Hegel’s Science of Logic. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230598904_3
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