Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences

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...[recognized], I might have considered it more advantageous for this work, in relation to the public, if circumstances had allowed me to let a more detailed work on the other parts of philosophy precede it, such as I have already presented to the public concerning the first part of the whole: Logic The author refers here to his "Science of Logic," which he considers the foundational "first part" of his philosophical system. I believe, moreover—although in the present presentation original: "Darstellung" the side involving the content of representation Vorstellung; the way the mind "pictures" or perceives objects before they are processed into pure logical thoughts and empirical acquaintance meaning knowledge gained through the senses and experience had to be restricted—that regarding the transitions (which can only be a mediation Vermittelung; the logical process by which one concept connects to and produces the next occurring through the Concept Begriff; the underlying rational structure of a thing), I have made enough observable so that the methodical nature of the progress sufficiently distinguishes itself both from the merely external order sought by other sciences, and from a [method] in the philosophical spi-