Negation
Hegel (throughout)
Not mere denial, but determinate negation. Something is what it is through the exclusion of what it is not. Negation is productive - it determines positively.
Origin
Spinoza: "omnis determinatio est negatio." Hegel radicalizes this: negation is not external, but constitutive.
In Hegel
Enz. §91; WdL vol. 1, Quality
Cross-references
Determinacy · Difference · Contradiction · Negation of the Negation