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III. HEGEL'S TREATMENT OF THE CATE- GORIES OF THE OBJECTIVE NOTION. 1 BY J. ELLIS MCTAGGABT. LAST year I had the honour of laying before the Society an attempt at an explanation of Hegel's doctrine of the Sub- jective Notion. In continuing this to the Objective Notion, I should wish to take up the same position as before. The views I put before you I believe to be substantially the same as those of Hegel. But the point on which I would wish that discussion might turn is the intrinsic correctness of these views, and not their fidelity to the text. The Objective Notion does not present so many difficulties as the preceding division. It is far less elaborately sub- divided than the Subjective Notion, and (with the exception of the category of Chemism) it is much less influenced by attempts to make the development of the Logic correspond exactly to the divisions of some finite science. We shall, I think, find it necessary to criticise less, and be able to con- fine ourselves almost entirely to exposition. The Objective Notion is the second division of the Doctrine of the Notion. It is divided into three sections, Mechanism, Chemism, and Teleology. The subdivisions of Chemism, which are only to be found in the Greater Logic, we may omit from consideration, for reasons which will be perceived when we come to that category. Mechanism is divided into Formal Mechanism, Mechanism with Affinity, and Absolute Mechanism. (These are the names given in the Smaller Lof/ic. The names are different in the Greater Logic, and each division is again subdivided, but the argument is sub- stantially the same.) Teleology again is subdivided into the Subjective End, the Means, and the Realised End. (These names are only found in the Greater Logic. In the Smaller Logic no names are given although the divisions are found.) Two of these categories bear, it will be noticed, the names of physical sciences. This has the same significance as the use of the terms of formal logic in the Subjective Notion. The categories of Mechanism and Chemism do not apply 1 Bead before the Aristotelian Society.