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What is the appropriate register for a theory of sensible intuition? Is it the psychology of the human mind, or a transcendental doctrine of elements providing the a priori conditions for knowledge?

The ultimate foundation of Hegel's system is not simply life but also the reciprocal relation between life and cognition that Hegel calls absolute method.

PURPOSIVENESS COMES TO PICK UP THE SLACK OF THE CATEGORIES

The a priori categories and principles of the understanding overgeneralize and underdetermine to such a degree that judgment finds itself helpless when faced with empirical, material nature.

Although empirical chaos poses a significant threat to our power of judgment, it is a somewhat weaker threat than that of transcendental chaos, insofar as empirical chaos and order can admit of flexibility and degree without undermining judgment in a way that transcendental chaos and order cannot.

Whatever else may be said concerning Hegel's approach to logic, its indebtedness to Kant's conception of transcendental logic is undeniable, and transcendental logic is, minimally, the point of departure for any understanding of Hegel's Science of Logic.