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>>11242286
Actuality and potentiality aren't really Hegel's purview but it was interesting that you (or the other anon) said that potentiality as motion has to be "non-existence" since actuality has to be existence. What Hegel's saying I guess is that pure space contains a contradiction in itself, is itself negated by its indifferent difference with itself. Pure space is a "this" that is only formally differentiated from all instances of "that". This contradiction is the seed that sets in motion the entire movement of God.

So it's not so much the infinite escapes contradiction by manifesting as finite being, but that the infinite is already in contradiction and finite being is simultaneously the actualization of /and/ drive to resolve this contradiction.