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).