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 340 MARY WHITON CALKINS : HEGELIAN CATEGORIES. categories ; and the justification for each change is found- as has been shown in Hegel's own admission. He himself asserts the equivalence of Identity and Difference not only with the categories of Determined Being, in book i., but with the categories of the Judgment in book iii. 1 He clearly implies the parallelism of the categories of Syllogism with the categories, in book i., of Being-for-Self, or One, 2 and he distinctly affirms the substantial identity of Mechanism, in book iii., with Keciprocity in book ii. 3 The reconstruction attempted in this paper will, however, fail of its object if it in any wise detract from the value of Hegel's argument. It should, rather, reveal the strength of a system which has triumphed over such difficulties of ex- pression. The idealistic critic may, therefore, re-shape but he never may reject Hegel's proof that ultimate reality is an Absolute Self. 1 Cf. p. 324, above. 2 Cf. p. 330, above. 5 Of. p. 333, above.