Speculative propositions throw thinking backward from predicate to the lost subject.

Evidence

At the moment when the reader suffers the ‘counter-thrust’, ‘instead of being for itself, the reader has to remain associated (zusammensein) with the content itself’ of the proposition, in other words to join its backward movement. In so doing, the origin comes closer, the reader approaches the absolute origin which always retreats towards itself. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1216 (#expands, via linked claim)

In Hegel’s view, the dialectical sublation of the predicative proposition can only occur within the arena of the proposition itself. It happens ‘at the level of the form (an der Form)’, as he says in the Encyclopedia Science of Logic. Hence to pass from one form – the predicative – to another – the speculative – requires no other form than that of the proposition. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1139 (#expands, via linked claim)

When the predicative proposition, the traditional subject and source for philosophy, becomes a speculative proposition, it confers on the λγς its real incline, thus successfully bringing the idea of συµα νειν into the context of predication. As long as it remains within the tradition, philosophy cannot, in Hegel’s view, get past basic grammar. It fails to see the constitutive incline of the proposition, because no matter what philosophy says, it still sees the proposition as a straight course protecting itself from a fall to which it claims to be exposed. Captive to a linear conception which keeps subject, copula and predicate within a relation but alien to one another, traditional philosophy fails to forge a necessary foundation for the relation between the subject and its accidents. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1172 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Absolute Knowledge transforms via a retrospective move that turns predicate into speculative proposition — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 929; Speculative propositions reveal an incline that ordinary grammar conceals — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1172; In a proposition the predicate is said as if coming from the subject itself (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Reading a speculation means joining the proposition’s backward movement toward its origin #expands (0.95) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1216
• Speculative thought arises inside the proposition rather than through a separate form #expands (0.90) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1139
• Ordinary grammar’s linear subject-copula-predicate structure blocks genuine speculative thought #corroborates (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1172
• Philosophical propositions dialectically preserve, suppress, and present their cancelled form #complicates (0.75)