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Logic 48

the unreflecting person and Hegel as he is in this mood is that the former would consider the subject exhausted and would pass to something else while Hegel insists upon harping on that string until certain inevitable difficulties are met with.
Hegel at once embraces these obligations with the same good faith (for it is good faith nothwithstanding his being able if he chooses to see further) with which he assumed the original position.
He pushes his objection for all its worth - for more than it is worth since the original position has something to sat for itself in reply.
Hegel is anxious not to allow any "foreign consideration" to intervene in the struggle which ensues that is to say no suggestions from a more advanced stage of philosophical development. I cannot see that it would conflict with the spirit of the general method to allow suggestions from experience provided they are such as would be