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[from 'Logic (Encyclopedia I)' by Georg W.F.Hegel, in 12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique ]

Full Idea

Inasmuch as Empiricism restricts itself to what is finite, the consistent carrying through of its programme denies the supersensible altogether, ..and it leaves thinking with abstraction only, [i.e.] with formal universality and identity.

Gist of Idea

Empiricism of the finite denies the supersensible, and can only think with formal abstraction

Source

Georg W.F.Hegel (Logic (Encyclopedia I) [1817], §38 Rem)

Book Reference

Hegel,Georg W.F.: 'The Hegel Reader', ed/tr. Houlgate,Stephen [Blackwell 1998], p.151


A Reaction

I'm not clear how a denial of empiricism allows you (with intellectual integrity) to embrace 'the supersensible'. The set theoretic account of higher levels of infinity looks like a nice test case.