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• Knotenlinie (Nodal Line of Measure-Relations)

  The Knotenlinie von Maßverhältnissen — nodal line of measure-relations — is Hegel's signature claim in the Maß-section of the Doctrine of Being (GW 21 raw ~5150–5300): quantitative changes accumulate continuously up to a node, at which a q…

• Maß (Measure, Hegel)

  Maß (in GW 21's 1832 spelling, Maaß) is the third Abschnitt of the Doctrine of Being (GW 21 raw 4660–5571) — the categorial unity of Qualität and Quantität. A determinate quantum as qualifying — change it sufficiently and the qualitative d…

• Peras and Apeiron (Limit and the Unlimited)

  The signature ontological pairing of Plato's Philebus (23c–27c): a division of "everything that exists now in the universe" into four kinds — the unlimited (apeiron), limit (peras), their mixture (mikton), and the cause of the mixture (ait…

• The Mean (To Metrion / Due Measure)

  Plato's doctrine — sharpest in the Statesman (283c–285c) — that there are two arts of measurement: (a) measuring relative magnitude (greater and less, things measured against each other), and (b) measuring against the mean or due measure (…

• Wahlverwandschaft (Elective Affinity, Hegel)

  Wahlverwandschaft — elective affinity — is the chemical sub-doctrine of reales Maaß in the Maß-section of the Doctrine of Being (GW 21 raw ~5050–5150). Hegel reads the Berthollet-Berzelius dispute on chemical affinity as a categorial dispu…