Positing Reflection
Hegel (logic of essence, first form of reflection)
The first form of reflection, in which thought brings forth its determinations itself ("posits" them). Positing reflection is purely at home with itself, circular, self-referential. Its result is "positedness" — determinations that have no independent standing, because they exist only through the act of positing.
In Hegel
Science of Logic II, Section 1, "Essence as Reflection Within Itself"
Cross-references
External Reflection · Determining Reflection · Positing · Positedness · Unmittelbar · Reflection
Das problem (kap. 5.5)
Positing reflection is *empty*. It turns in a circle. "A = A" — essence is essence, ground is ground. That is not false, but it says nothing. Hegel: "movement of nothing through nothing back to itself."
Charakteristik
self-referential, circular, tautological, empty, immediate
Performative erfahrung
Every immediate execution in the experiments — you think "pure being," you assert something, you define a concept. You simply *do* it, without first asking whether it works.
Alltagsbeispiel
"What is truth? — Truth is the true." (Circular, but not false)
Entspricht
the moment of understanding (Enz. §79), identity (A=A), tautology, immediacy