Mediation
Hegel (throughout)
The connection between two moments through a third. Not an external linking, but an inner necessity. The true is not the immediate, but the mediated.
Origin
Hegel against the philosophy of immediacy (Romanticism): truth lies in mediation, not in "original" feeling.
In Hegel
Enz. §86 (Remark); (throughout)
Cross-references
Unmittelbar · Logic of Essence · Syllogism · Beziehung