Hegel invented the dialectic as a movement of establishing and vanishing determinations

Evidence

When Hegel speaks of the ‘dialectic of sense certainty’ … he is thinking of the dialectic as a movement within which a determination establishes itself (Zustandekommt) and then again vanishes (wieder vergeht); … no one before him had associated this connotation with the term ‘dialectic’. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 880

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

  • DEFINE: Fixed definition of Hegelian dialectic as movement of establishment and vanishing.
  • XREF: Speaks to book_so_far ch22 ‘plasticity names the negativity that is time’s gift of form’ — vanishing that gives form.

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