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Hegel's theory of the Concept commits him to both idealism and metaphysical monism

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1.The Concept provides the universal structure governing the conceptual and individual structure of all objects in the world
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2.The radical conceptualism of Hegel's theory entails idealism
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3.The singularity of the Concept—its all-encompassing uniqueness as the world itself—entails metaphysical monism
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1.The Concept (Begriff) in Hegel is a self-differentiating logical structure, not a single undivided substance, making internal plurality constitutive of it.
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2.A metaphysical monism requires the reduction of all difference to a single, undifferentiated principle, which Hegel explicitly rejects as the 'night in which all cows are black'.
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3.Therefore the singularity of the Concept is compatible with genuine ontological pluralism, undermining the inference from Concept-theory to monism.
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