Note: this assignment is for students in Group III only.
Please respond to the following in
two pages or less (double spaced). (Needless to say this should be
your own original work.)
In the second addition (Zusatz) to §119
(p. 187), Hegel says that the principle ``Everything stands in
opposition'' (or better: ``Everything is opposed'' [Alles
ist entgegengesetzt]) is better than the law of excluded middle
(tertium non datur), stated in the Remark (p. 185) as ``Of two opposed
predicates, only one belongs to something, and there is no third''
(note I have changed placement of quotation marks). In what sense does
Hegel think these are two versions of the same thing, and why does he
claim that his version is better?