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THE DOCTRINE OF ESSENCE.
112.] The terms in Essence are always mere pairs of correlatives, and not yet absolutely reflected in themselves: hence in essence the actual unity of the notion is not realised, but only postulated by reflection. Essence,-which is Being coming into mediation with itself through the negativity of itself-is self-relatedness, only in so far as it is relation to an Other,-this Other however coming to view at first not as something which is, but as postulated and hypothetised.