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    It is not the case that Hegel's theory of the Concept commits him to both idealism and 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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    • 1.Robert Pippin's influential non-metaphysical reading holds that Hegel's Concept concerns the normative conditions of conceptual activity, not the mind-dependence of external objects.
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    • 2.If the Concept governs the structure of thought rather than constituting the being of objects, radical conceptualism need not entail idealism in any robust metaphysical sense.
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    • 3.The equation of conceptual governance with idealist ontology thus conflates epistemological conditions of intelligibility with claims about mind-dependence of reality.
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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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