Determinacy

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Determinacy is the posited, concrete determination. In existence (*Dasein*): being with determinacy = quality. Determinacy is not arbitrary, but necessary from the matter. "Truth as determinate determinacy" (subtitle Ch. 1): truth is not abstract, but concretely determinate. Every something has its determinacy (is this, not that). Determinacy is boundary: it demarcates, excludes.

Origin: German: *Bestimmtheit* as a substantivization of *bestimmt*. Hegel makes this a technical concept: the concrete quality as distinct from determination in general in the abstract.

In Hegel: Enc. §91; SL Vol. 1, Quality

Cross-references: Determination, Quality, Existence (Dasein), Negation, Boundary, Logic of Being

Commentary on the Logic, Chapter 1

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