Single Idea 21760

[catalogued under 7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing]

Full Idea

Thinking of nothing is not the same as simply not thinking. Thought that suspends all its presuppositions and so ends up thinking of nothing determinate still remains thought, albeit utterly indeterminate and inchoate thought.

Gist of Idea

Thinking of nothing is not the same as simply not thinking

Source

report of Georg W.F.Hegel (Science of Logic [1816]) by Stephen Houlgate - An Introduction to Hegel 02 'From indeterminate'

Book Reference

Houlgate,Stephen: 'An Introduction to Hegel' [Blackwell 2005], p.32


A Reaction

This is the very starting point of Hegel's dialectical inferences in his 'Logic'. It is hard to entirely disagree, though I wonder whether the exercise is actually possible. What are you aware of if you have a thought with no content?

Related Idea

Idea 21761 If we start with indeterminate being, we arrive at being and nothing as a united pair [Hegel, by Houlgate]