Abstract
What is the essence of a matter? Unreflective procedure assumes that essence is what remains when all contingencies or appearance is stripped away. But for Hegel, it's appearances all the way down. Everything is an onion, so that when appearances are stripped away, there's nothing at the center at all. From this surmises that the essence of a thing is that it must disappear. This theory of essence is developed in Hegel's monumental Science of Logic. Essence and According to Hegel is the fourth in a series of articles that, by means of a pictographic system, records every single step that makes in the Science of Logic. The article takes the reader through the three chapters of Reflection - illusory being, the essentialities (i.e., identity and difference), and ground. The article ends with existence - Hegel's word for the world of things which have properties.
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