shahab on Nostr: "Hegel here makes a point about the grammatical and the logical form of propositions ...

"Hegel here makes a point about the grammatical and the logical form of propositions and how it can be, so he thinks, misleading. If we say, 'God is the moral order of the world,' it looks like we're using 'God' as a referring expression (and thus picking him out by doing so). We then supply predicates to it to determine it. However, the point of saying something like 'God is the moral order of the world' is to do no such thing. We are instead trying to develop a concept of what it is that we are talking about when we talk about God."

—Terry Pinakrd