Diamond net

"Diamond net" is a metaphor Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel uses in his Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences for “the entire range of the universal determinations of thought…into which everything is brought and thereby first made intelligible.”^[1] In other words, the diamond net of which Hegel speaks is the logical categories according to which we understand our experience, making our empirical observations intelligible.

See also

• Hegelianism

References

• Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 1970. Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature (Being Part Two of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences, 1830). Translated by A.V. Miller. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Continental Philosophy of Science (PDF format)
• This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.

Notes

1. ^ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature (Being Part Two of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences, 1830), trans. A.V. Miller (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970), §246.