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Hegel on Judgements and Posits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2016

Christian Martin
Christian Martin*
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LMU, [email protected]
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Abstract

Hegel draws a distinction between ‘judgements’ (Urteile) and ‘posits’ (Sätze). Judgements serve to explicate a unified subject matter, while posits do not. Because different forms of judgement are marked by specific combinations of logical constants with certain types of predicates, statements combining logical constants with predicates not ‘suited’ for each other cannot express judgements, but only posits. Current accounts of Hegel’s concept of judgement tend either to ignore or reject his conception of posits. This article shows that Hegel’s exclusion of a vast variety of well-formed statements from the realm of judgements contains a valuable insight rather than a flaw. It demonstrates that certain statements, even if correct, cannot contribute to the explication of a non-arbitrarily unified subject matter. Doing justice to Hegel’s notion of posit thus serves to motivate his general conception of judgement as well as his classification of particular types of judgement.

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Hegel Bulletin , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , May 2016 , pp. 53 - 80
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© The Hegel Society of Great Britain 2016 

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