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    It is not the case that For Hegel, logic has an ontological dimension and is not merely a science of the form of thought

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    • 1.Kant demonstrated that logical categories are forms of judgment imposed by the mind, not features of mind-independent reality.
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    • 2.Hegel's move from logical form to ontological content commits the pre-Critical error of treating conceptual necessity as metaphysical necessity.
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    • 3.Without a Kantian-style deduction showing why thought-structures must mirror being, the inference from logic to ontology is unwarranted.
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    • 1.Michael Dummett argues that Hegel's Science of Logic is best read as a theory of linguistic and conceptual structure, not a theory of being.
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    • 2.The internal transitions between logical categories in the Doctrine of Essence can be fully explained as conceptual entailments without positing ontological commitments.
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    • 3.Parsimony favors interpreting Hegel's logic as an epistemological enterprise about the conditions of intelligibility rather than a speculative cosmology.
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    • 1.Hegel's logic is a science of actual content as well as form
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    • 2.Thought determinations in Book 1 lead into those of Book 2 (Doctrine of Essence)
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    • 3.Logical structures can describe underlying reality, not just thought forms
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