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>>14769882
This is interesting actually. Both of these equations miss the point, but for different reasons.
>X + Y = Z
This misses the point of sublation, the other anon was right to say this is closer to Fichte's idea of synthesis, something which was not Hegel's contribution, but even this doesn't quite square as there is nothing in Z which you find in X and Y. maybe it would be better formulated as
>X + Y = XY
so far as XY constitutes its own variable and isn't strictly reducible to the variable X and Y.

>C - C(n) = C + -(C(n))
This is an okay description of determinate negation, although it can't go far enough to show hows this formula leads to a new C (C'). maybe better rendered as
>(C - C(n) = C + -(C(n))) < C + ((C - C(n) = C + -(C(n))) + -(C - C(n) = C + -(C(n))))
Obviously this doesn't work mathematically because it would basically reduce to
>(0 = 0) < C + 0
Where C = 0. But this is more of a limitation of mathematical notation than anything. For Hegel, the concept + its negation isn't simply C + 0 (or 0 + 0), as the negation of C is a 0 which is substantive, something which goes beyond 0. This is why Zizek talks about that which is less than nothing, as a negative which retains its own virtual content.

>>14671617
anon it's a metaphor using food, obviously the process of digestion isn't a one for one description of Hegelian spirit.