The negatively-infinite judgment, in which the subject has no relation whatever to the predicate, gets its place in the Formal Logic solely as a nonsensical curiosity. But the infinite judgment is not really a mere casual form adopted by subjective thought. It exhibits the proximate result of the dialectical process in the immediate judgments preceding (the positive and simply-negative), and distinctly displays their finitude and untruth. Crime may be quoted as an objective instance of the negatively-infinite judgment. The person committing a crime, such as a theft, does not, as in a suit about civil rights, merely deny the particular right of another person to some one definite thing. He denies the right of that person in general, and therefore he is not merely forced to restore what he has stolen, but is punished in addition, because he has violated law as law, _i.e._ law in general. The civil-law suit on the contrary is an instance of the negative judgment pure and simple where merely the particular law is violated, whilst law in general is so far acknowledged. Such a dispute is precisely paralleled by a negative judgment, like, 'This flower is not red:' by which we merely deny the particular colour of the flower, but not its colour in general, which may be blue, yellow, or any other. Similarly death, as a negatively-infinite judgment, is distinguished from disease as simply-negative. In disease, merely this or that function of life is checked or negatived: in death, as we ordinarily say, body and soul part, _i.e._ subject and predicate utterly diverge. (ß) _Judgment of Reflection._ 174.] The individual put as individual (_i.e._ as reflected-into-self) into the judgment, has a predicate, in comparison with which the subject, as self-relating, continues to be still _an other_ thing.--In existence the subject ceases to be immediately qualitative, it is in correlation, and inter-connexion with an other thing,--with an external world. In this way the universality of the predicate comes to signify this relativity--(_e.g._) useful, or dangerous; weight or acidity; or again, instinct; are examples of such relative predicates.