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The section of Force and the Understanding in which Hegel explains the inseparability of opposites in order to elucidate his distinction between Notion and law, makes sense. Namely, his explanation that sourness is oppositely contained within something that is sweet, just as either electromagnetic pole of Earth is inextricably connected to the other, and how what may be punished as a criminal act could serve a higher purpose either for the criminal in this world of appearance, or in the supersensible world—whether that be for himself or some aspect of that world—affords reason insofar as a unifying force may be assigned to such phenomena. For instance, that would consist of attractive electromagnetic substances, states of taste that will result from spoilage of a food that otherwise possesses an opposite taste in its ripe form, and how the process of civil law pertaining to punishment of crime comprises at least a roughly unified stream of a particular Force.

As an excellent exhibit of such opposition-centered Force based on inversion of its laws, such an utterance as “living on either side of the law” lends credence to how law functions in terms of Hegel's ontology, whereby the realm of criminal acts and the people who commit them are inextricably linked with those on the opposing side of so-called Law Enforcement, which is a system of individuals who cannot live as they do, or perhaps even have decent livelihoods, in the full-fledged absence of criminal activity. Conversely, criminals cannot receive a potential gain from punishment, or a process of trial whence they may be acquitted in a way translatable to personal growth, or some enhancement in a supersensible manner that might only be known by the self-consciousness of a punished, or eventually acquitted individual.

Ergo, the cumulative Notion of repellent polarities consisting of reward on one polar node (or the punishment-administering sector of the so-called justice system in a solicited sense) and the other node related to punishment received by a criminal on account of soliciting via their miscreant act(s), is paradoxically contingent on the cross-reliability of both sides of the system in order to generate a collective Force that literally requires opposite sides of the law. Also, such activity from a sociologically perspective is represented succinctly by the relationship concerning how the oxygen pole in the phenomena of electricity would equivocate, or be compressed into hydrogen in a state of “unmanifested electricity,” as Hegel puts it. This analogy as it relates to law in a psycho-social sense, and electromagnetism in a physical sense, aptly illustrates what is perhaps the most powerful phenomenon of reality in its totality: the diametric opposition of poles manifested conjointly as law, which is thereby manifested as the overall Notion comprising any and all activity occurring between the poles—that being Force.

Furthermore, the idea that law is attributed to the infinite replication of Forces contains legitimacy insofar as such laws happen to inexorably fall into place each and every time Forces manifest. Such Forces' instances can be repeated (or replicated, in Hegel's terms) to a theoretically infinite degree, so long as the necessary substrates are present in order for the complementary soliciting and solicited components of the law to actualize the overarching Notion of the Force associated with whatever substrates are taken into account. While this is cogent, Hegel seemingly fails to consider the potential impermanence of the multiplicity of substrates, which are indispensable in terms of facilitating the actualization of Forces that, in turn, would conceivably suffer utter dissolution without their essential substrates, whereupon revitalization of the Forces would fail to occur barring the reemergence of opposing substrates required to make such Forces exist. In light of this, it is arguably reasonable to conjecture that new Forces, or variations of preexisting Forces, could arise in accordance to the development of instances of altered, or altogether new substrates necessary for certain Forces to propagate.

In summation, supposing that dissolution of a theoretically infinite array of objects tantamount to utilization as substrates (and for a correspondingly infinite variety of forces) is viable, supreme existential intrigue is evoked upon the quandary regarding what underlying Force, unto which all other Forces are constituted, exists. An ultimate Force as such would not merely be infinite in a theoretical sense, but infinite in an absolute manner in accordance to the polarities necessitating law, which has always existed infinitely in a circular motion, or regressed to a point of singularity in which the poles split apart from an infinitesimally dense conglomeration and into a higher state of repulsion, thence leading to an array of activities capable of being performed within the primordial poles that in turn instantiated an infinite pool of objects susceptible to configuration into distinct Forces, with particular interest concerning the Forces relevant to the materially-dominated world of appearance that we seem capable of Understanding, or “knowing” so well by means of sense-perception.