Becoming

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The unity of being and nothing. Not a temporal process, but a logical structure. Becoming is the truth of being and nothing - their movement into one another. Coming-to-be (from nothing to being) and ceasing-to-be (from being to nothing).

Origin: Heraclitus: everything flows. Hegel: becoming as a logical category, not merely as a natural process.

In Hegel: Enz. §88; Science of Logic, Vol. 1, Doctrine of Being

Cross-references: Being, Nothing, Determinate Being, Passing-over

Commentary on the Logic, Chapter 1

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