Commentary on the Logic, Chapter 1
Organizing Principle of the Logic of Being
The logic of being develops all forms of immediate determinateness — determinations that seem to stand on their own, without being mediated through relations. The guiding thread is the question of truth: every category is interrogated for what it contributes to clarifying “What is truth?” In the end, all seeming immediacy proves to be mediated — and precisely this drives the transition to the logic of essence.
The form of movement is passing-over: each category proves unstable and turns into its other. Being vanishes into nothing; quality vanishes into quantity. This passing-over is one-dimensional — A becomes B becomes C.