ABSTRACT
It might be thought that, since Hegel has already rejected the propositional form as a vehicle for the truth about infinite entities, there can be little to say about proof or argument. Hegel believed that neither traditional metaphysics nor the natural sciences could do justice to infinite objects and it was a common belief of the time that thinking, or at any rate thinking of a certain kind, was bound to omit or distort religious truths. Hegel distinguishes reflectively between the object of awareness and the subjective mental state or activity involved in the awareness of it. Hegel regularly associates the Cogito with the ontological argument. Hegel might concede that there is such a thing as the non-inferential awareness of physical objects and of one's own body. The infinity of God, however, does not require this identity, but only that our proofs and provings should be in some sense a part of God.
