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One necessary moment of philosophy is the pleasure in seeing a thought to its fruition. Like a puzzle, a math problem, a programming problem, there is a type of aesthetic, game-like experience of thinking that sees a thought taken to its necessary conclusion. A prime example may be the Science of Logic, which, in one aspect of what it set out to do, was to show the necessary movement of being and thought. But there is another aspect of thought, where contingency also becomes necessity, which, funnily enough, Hegel also embodied. Hegel had both feet firmly planted in these two paths. The first type of thinking errs in a false necessity, they think that the logical deduction of something is sufficient to establish some sort of real claim. The second type of thinking errs in false contingency, by seeing contingency and thinking it is in fact mere contingency, and says nothing about the way the world or our minds are.