ABSTRACT
Being, the indeterminate immediate, is in fact nothing, and neither more nor less than nothing. Pure being and pure nothing are, therefore, the same. What is the truth is neither being nor nothing, but that being-does not pass over but has passed over-into nothing, and nothing into being. Being and non-being are the same, therefore it is the same whether this house is or is not, whether these hundred dollars are part of my fortune or not. The proposition contains the pure abstractions of being and nothing; but the application converts them into a determinate being and a determinate nothing. Nothing is usually opposed to something; but the being of some-thing is already determinate and is distinguished from another something; and so therefore the nothing which is opposed to the something is also the nothing of a particular something, a determinate nothing.
