Negation’s origin determines whether nothingness is subjective or real

Evidence

Imagination, which in Kant’s famous definition is what permits ‘something to be represented in its absence’, initiates a determinate relation between being and non-being. The entity imagined is neither present nor absent. Transcendental imagination, presupposing the co-implication of being and non-being which governs every determination of presence, is specifically the modern modality of the originary unity of opposites. The concept of ens imaginarium supplies to the modern moment of plasticity that very category of a relative non-being which is its correlative. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 897 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Expectation constitutes real absence while gratuitous negation stays merely abstract; Transcendental imagination holds being and non-being in co-implication as relative non-being — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 897; Abstract quality is apprehended in the future mode, correlative with negation (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Expectation constitutes real absence while gratuitous negation stays merely abstract #expands (0.85)
• Transcendental imagination holds being and non-being in co-implication as relative non-being #qualifies (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 897