ABSTRACT
Chemism constitutes in objectivity as a whole, the moment of judgement, of the difference that has become objective, and of the process. The chemical object is distinguished from the mechanical by the fact that the latter is a totality indifferent to determinateness, whereas in the case of the chemical object the determinateness, and consequently the relation to other and the kind and manner of this relation, belong to its nature. This determinateness is at the same time essentially a particularization, that is, it is taken up into universality, thus it is a principle, universal determinateness, the determinateness not only of the one individual object but also of the other. Chemism itself is the first negation of indifferent objectivity and of the externality of determinateness, it is therefore still infected with the immediate self-subsistence of the object and with externality.
