The dialectic is primordial and itself the origin, with nothing preceding it.

Evidence

Everything begins in the same moment, where the becoming essential of the accident and the becoming accidental of essence mutually imply one another. There is nothing beforehand. The dialectic is primordial, indeed, it is the origin. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 144

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that the dialectic is the origin, with nothing beforehand, connects to the reader’s brain-work interest in plasticity as a constitutive rather than derivative concept. — connects to: Hegelian dialectic is systematically non-transcendental because it admits no outside — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 274; Hegel invented the dialectic as a movement of establishing and vanishing determinations; The dialectic is primordial and contains its own contradiction from its origin — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1120

Broader Connections

• Hegelian dialectic is systematically non-transcendental because it admits no outside #expands (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 274
• Hegel invented the dialectic as a movement of establishing and vanishing determinations #qualifies (0.75)