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| | Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich |
 | | His system, which is a type of idealism, traces the emergence of Spirit in the logical study of concepts and the process of world history. |
 | | For Hegel, concepts unfold, and in unfolding they generate the reality that is described by them. |
 | | The dialectic moves from the thesis, or indeterminate concept (for example, a thing in space), to the antithesis, or determinate concept (for example, an animal), and then to the synthesis (for example, a cat), which is the resolution of what Hegel thinks is the contradiction between the indeterminate and determinate concepts. |
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