sublation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   in Hegelian philosophy, the simultaneous canceling and preserving of a thing at a higher level

   Hegel's notion of sublation lets a contradiction be both negated and retained.

From Latin sublātiō ('a lifting up, removal'), from sublātus ('taken up, removed'), the suppletive past participle of tollere ('to lift, take away'), formed with sub- ('up from under'); used to render Hegel's Aufhebung.

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