The absolute idea form of reason; but it has had in general the value of a wholly external form that does not determine the nature of the content; moreover, since in its formalism it gets caught up in the understanding's determination of mere identity, it lacks the essential dialectical moment of negativity; and yet this moment enters into the triplicity of the determinations, because the third term is the unity of the two first determinations and these, since they are diverse, can be in unity only as sublated.