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Full Idea
For Hegel, the 'negation of negation' is negation that, as it were, doubles back on itself and 'relates itself to itself'.
Gist of Idea
Negation of negation doubles back into a self-relationship
Source
report of Georg W.F.Hegel (works [1812]) by Stephen Houlgate - An Introduction to Hegel 6 'Space'
Book Ref
Houlgate,Stephen: 'An Introduction to Hegel' [Blackwell 2005], p.124
A Reaction
[ref VNP 1823 p.108] Glad we've cleared that one up.
| 20788 | The contradictory of a contradictory is an affirmation [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 22017 | Normativity needs the possibility of negation, in affirmation and denial [Fichte, by Pinkard] |
| 21777 | Negation of negation doubles back into a self-relationship [Hegel, by Houlgate] |
| 16489 | Is it possible to state every possible truth about the whole course of nature without using 'not'? [Russell] |
| 18722 | Negations are not just reversals of truth-value, since that can happen without negation [Wittgenstein on Russell] |
| 18723 | We may correctly use 'not' without making the rule explicit [Wittgenstein] |
| 23493 | 'Not' isn't an object, because not-not-p would then differ from p [Wittgenstein] |
| 23066 | Negation doesn't arise from reasoning, but from deep instincts [Cioran] |
| 18903 | Sommers promotes the old idea that negation basically refers to terms [Sommers, by Engelbretsen] |
| 18801 | Classical negation is circular, if it relies on knowing negation-conditions from truth-conditions [Dummett] |
| 19052 | Natural language 'not' doesn't apply to sentences [Dummett] |
| 18476 | 'A is F' may not be positive ('is dead'), and 'A is not-F' may not be negative ('is not blind') [MacBride] |
| 18908 | Standard logic only negates sentences, even via negated general terms or predicates [Engelbretsen] |