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Ascending dialectic (n.) must ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠show not only that spirit needs finite things but that finite things need spirit; otherwise Hegel's system is just another faith.

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Being and nothing (n.) teach ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠that in the end all abstractions are alike: a spirit with no particular features is no different from bare being, and real spirituality is also material.

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Being and nothing (n.) are ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not a thing and its absence: the nothing set against pure being is not the nothing of some particular thing but nothing in its bare, indeterminate simplicity.

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Dialectical reduplication (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠like a woman's coyness: it holds out against everyone and yields only when the true lover — real seriousness — appears.