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    It is not the case that Hegel's principle of determinate negation cannot be identified with or reduced to Spinoza's principle that 'all determination is negation'.

    ?Set your confidence on the premises below to see your aggregate.

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    • 1.Spinoza's top-down determination starts with a single category (divine substance) progressively divided by concepts, presupposing a whole that precedes its parts.
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    • 2.Spinoza's approach presupposes that all negations are negations of something primitively positive.
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    • 3.Hegel's negations are negations of determinations that are themselves already to be conceived as negations.
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