Even our ordinary conception of Becoming implies that somewhat comes out
of it, and that Becoming therefore has a result. But this conception
gives rise to the question, how Becoming does not remain mere Becoming,
but has a result?
The answer to this question follows from what Becoming has already shown
itself to be. Becoming always contains Being and Nothing in such a way,
that these two are always changing into each other, and reciprocally
cancelling each other. Thus Becoming stands before us in utter
restlessness — unable however to maintain itself in this abstract
restlessness: for, since Being and Nothing vanish in Becoming (and that
is the very notion of Becoming), the latter must vanish also. Becoming
is as it were a fire, which dies out in itself, when it consumes its
material. The result of this process however is not empty Nothing, but
Being identical with the negation — what we call Being Determinate
(being then and there): the primary import of which evidently is that it
has become.
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