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Determinateness (Quality)
?- 0 Hegel's 'System of Science'
- 1 Logic (Thinking of Thinking, Science of Science)
- 2 Nature (science of matter)
- 3 Spirit/Mind (Science of humanities)
- 11 Being (immediateness, 'Ontology')
- 12 Essence (mediation, reflection, metaphysics)
- 13 Concept (Notion / Logos / Comprehension, 'Begriff')
- 111 Determinateness (Quality)
- 112 Magnitude (Quantity)
- 113 Measure (qualitative Quantity)
- 1111 Indeterminate Being
- 1112 Being-there, determinate Being ('Dasein')
- 1113 Being for oneself/Being for itself (Für-sich-sein)
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