Nothing

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The beginning of the Logic after Being. Not empirical emptiness, but the thought-determination "Nothing." Immediately identical with Being --- both are utterly indeterminate. Their truth is Becoming.

Origin: Parmenides: Nothing is unthinkable. Hegel: Nothing is thinkable as pure indeterminacy --- and identical with Being.

In Hegel: Enz. §87; SL Vol. 1, Doctrine of Being

Cross-references: Being, Becoming, Determinate Being

Commentary on the Logic, Chapter 1

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