You will learn as you study the triad in its multifarious forms and development in Hegel's Logic . But the purpose of this article is to aid your reading, so you will forgive a brief and inadequate description. At first something is put forward, is posited, presents itself. It presents itself also by way of negating something else, its negation, that which it is not . A new and higher concept arises on the basis of conceiving both the thesis and antithesis in this way as identical with each other.
Examples are superfluous.
The whole of the Logic , and hopefully the explanations to follow here, demonstrate this dynamic. In reading the Logic , you should look back and forward as you begin each new chapter and section, and try to keep a bearing on where you are in terms of triads. But at the same time, don't expect to fully understand a concept until you have read through it, and followed exactly how its own internal contradictions build up and pass over into the next concept. The adequacy of countless concepts of systematicity in Nature has been proved by practice. However, with Marx, the concept of system in philosophy was transformed from an absolute to a relative .