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Hegel and the Logical Form
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Hegel and the Logical Form

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  • Vojtěch Kolman Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5926-9694

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https://doi.org/10.12775/LLP.2023.010

Keywords

Hegel, logical form, Frege, Wittgenstein, dialectics, speculative sentences

Abstract

The concept of logical form, as influentially specified by Frege and Bolzano, is accompanied by a paradox: to capture some universal property of discourse, we must specify that property, thereby rendering it particular and thus unsuitable for the universal purpose. Thus, instead of a single form, we have rather a sequence of them, corresponding to the logics of Aristotle, Frege, Brouwer, and others. In this paper, I argue that Hegel’s conception of logical form focuses on this historical aspect of the problem. Thus, he does not create a new logical form, e.g., that of dialectical logic, as Marx, as well as Priest and others, believe, but makes the attitude towards “fixed determinations” of logic part of these determinations themselves. This corresponds to Hegel’s differentiation between three layers of logic: formal, dialectical, and speculative.

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KOLMAN, Vojtěch. Hegel and the Logical Form. Logic and Logical Philosophy. Online. 19 June 2023. Vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 383-401. [Accessed 6 July 2025]. DOI 10.12775/LLP.2023.010.
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