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In the first section of this chapter, Hegel concludes that the specific measure of a thing is indeterminate. He then considers the measure relations of multiple substances . This consideration produces a series of measures in which Hegel discovers the nodal line of measure relations. In the second section, he repeats the notion that the quality of a substrate depends on a specific quantum. Due to its quantitative nature, this quantum necessarily repels itself beyond itself, and thus becomes the measure of another quality, ad infinitum. The quantitative aspect of the infinite process is called “measureless.” Subsequently, the qualities of the substrate are reduced to “states.” The main conclusion Hegel draws in this chapter is that the substrate is not the self-determining concept .
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Tabak, M. (2017). Real Measure. In: The Doctrine of Being in Hegel’s Science of Logic. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55938-4_9
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