Science of Logic

on which the possibility of the understanding rests. Kant distinguishes the subjective unity of consciousness from this—that is, the unity of representation representation (Vorstellung): the mental "picture" or "image" we have of things before we think about them logically., whether I am conscious of a manifold original: "Mannichfaltigen." In Kantian terms, this refers to the "raw data" or variety of sensory inputs (sights, sounds, etc.) before they are organized by the mind. as being simultaneous or successive, which depends on empirical Based on experience or observation rather than logic. conditions. By contrast, the principles of the objective determination of representations are to be derived solely from the principle of the transcendental unity of apperception apperception: the mind’s process of perceiving itself as the center of all its own thoughts; "I think" accompanying all my experiences.. Through the categories, which are these objective determinations, the manifold of given representations is so determined that it is brought to the unity of consciousness. — According to this account, the unity of the Concept is that through which something is not a mere determination of feeling, intuition, or even a mere representation, but is an Object; this objective unity is the unity of the "I" with itself. — The conceiving original: "Begreiffen." In German, this word literally means "to grasp" or "to reach out and take." Hegel is playing on the idea that to understand something is to "take it in" and make it part of our own thought structure. of an object consists, in fact, in nothing other than the "I" making that object its own, penetrating it, and bringing it into its own form—that is, into universality, which is immediately a specific determination, or a determination which is immediately universality. The object in intuition Anschauung: the immediate, direct sensory viewing of something. or even in representation is still something external and foreign. Through the act of conceiving, the being-in-and-for-itself original: "An- und Fürsichseyn." A core Hegelian term meaning the true, independent, and fully realized nature of a thing. which the object possesses in intuition and representation is transformed into a positedness original: "Gesetztesseyn." This refers to something that does not just "exist" on its own, but has been "set down" or established by the work of the mind.; the "I" penetrates it through thinking. But only as it exists in thought is the object truly in and for itself; as it exists in intuition or representation, it is merely appearance. Thinking sublates sublate (aufheben): to simultaneously cancel something out and preserve it on a higher level. the immediacy with which the object first comes before us, and thus makes a "positedness" out of it; yet this "positedness" is precisely its being-in-and-for-itself, or its objectivity. This objectivity the ob-