Totality For Hegel, only the whole is true. Every stage or phase or moment is partial, and therefore partially untrue. Think of these structural elements as the interrelated ones of a whole architecture or even better, a fractal architecture. Hegel dissolves this classical static view in a dynamic movement towards the whole . The whole is an overcoming which preserves what it overcomes.
Nothing is lost or destroyed but raised up and preserved as in a spiral.
Think of the opening of a fern or a shell. This is an organic rather than mechanical logic. For anything to happen, everything has to be in place. A Grammar of Thinking In Hegel's treatment of logic, thinking dwells on itself, rather than trying to comprehend the world. The Science of Logic deals with logical categories, not the accidents of history or various modes of relating to the world.