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Hegel's biggest problem, aside from mathematics and logic not having gone far enough to formalize his intuitions. No category theory, no modal logic, no graph theory, etc.

Then his credibility took a hit from Russel's, in retrospect, invalid criticism about how all prior logic was obsolete, mixed with a misunderstanding of the implications of Cantor's work.

I try to be charitable to philosophers of all sorts, but since Russel was so incredibly uncharitable himself, I think it's worth noting that he had a best a light grip on Hegel. Having been a prodigy he was used to things coming easy to him. Hegel isn't easy, either the subject matter or the horrid writing, and it certainly seems like he just got badly filtered. The Principia will be a tome for historians of philosophy while the Science of Logic will continue to be studied for generations, the last laugh.

It's sad because the Logicalism Russel aspired to seemed to get killed by Gödel and other innovations around the time, but remained dormant in dialectical, waiting to be reborn after major advanced in mathematics and logic. Russell created analytical philosophy as a reaction against Hegel, his project, at least in the form of logical positivism, crashed and burned, and yet from the ashes, like a phoenix, Logicalism reemerged garbed in Hegelian dialectical decades later.

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If you think Hegel's system is nominalist you have entirely missed it. Which to be fair, in the famous introduction to the Phenomenology he does do a long recap of the Lockean and Kantian points he wishes to argue AGAINST, but does not make this as clear as he should be. For Hegel, the concept is the reality. There cannot be nominalism in a system where concept is ontologically basic. It's more a fusion of nominalism and realism, turned into a circular causal loop.