Fourness

Werckmeister / Neuser (finding)

The finding that in nature there frequently stand four steps, where logic has three.

Cross-references

Externality · Elements

Der grund

In nature the middle term is doubled — Hegel says "broken." In the process of fire, "the broken middle and the two extremes" belong together. Where in the logical realm a single mediating term stands, in nature two stand.

Wie das mit der äußerlichkeit zusammenhängt

Because the mediating term is itself something singular, it falls apart into two — see Externality.

Im buch

Part One, III