ABSTRACT
THE category of negation has been given an ontological significance by Hegel and most of his followers. Bradley too, though he at first wanted to regard it as only subjective in the chapter on "Negative Judgment,"1 recants his position in the "Terminal Essays," and says that "all negation is real."2 And in his Appearance and Reality, though many categories that claim reality are placed in the crucible, negation somehow escapes. As the concept occupies a very important place in the systems of the Hegelian idealists, we shall here examine it.3
