Indifference

Indifference or lack of distinction. The term designates different things in Hegel, depending on the passage. 1. Absolute indifference (Logic of Being, end of the theory of measure, Ch. 3.8) --- the turning point toward the Logic of Essence. The series of measures produces a substrate that behaves indifferently toward its individual determinations of measure: the same in all of them, exhausted in none. This is not a further measure that is reached, but that in which the measures are measures --- the first posited, and thus the entry into the Logic of Essence. 2. Indifference of quantity (Ch. 2) --- the determinacy has become indifferent to the matter; on this rests mathematizability. 3. Indifference in mechanism (Ch. 14.2) --- the objects remain internally unchanged in the interaction; in chemism this is sublated through affinity (Ch. 15.1).