Abstract

Hegel’s thesis of identity regarding substance as subject starts with a self-referential concept of identity, that is, coinciding with itself. It is different from all the traditional, non-reflexive concepts of identity alternation, as in the beginning with Leibniz, Hume or Frege , as well as with Quine. The foundation of all consideration and discussion about beingness is that substance is in its conception of self circular, self-referential and a priori identical with itself. Still, this conceptual coinciding-with-itself is also – dialectically – the incongruity of all its substantial qualities with oneself, it is their dissolution and existence. Here, the other, the negative, belongs to the inner conceptual definition of substance itself, and the true in experience and science becomes the process of sequencing of opposite, visible phenomena of consciousness