Where does absolute collide?

In philosophy, especially German idealism, the Absolute is the unconditioned, self-sufficient totality in which the oppositions of subject and object, mind and world, are ultimately comprehended, as against anything merely relative or dependent. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit traces the development of consciousness toward this standpoint, where truth is grasped as a whole rather than in isolated fragments. The referent is a metaphysical concept of the unconditioned ground of all things, assessed by argument within a system of thought. It shares only a word with a solvent-extracted fragrance material or a number's magnitude.[1]

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The unconditioned totality as a metaphysical concept

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Argued philosophically; not a measured quantity

In mathematics the absolute value of a real number is its magnitude without regard to sign, written |x|, equal to the number's distance from zero on the number line; for complex numbers it generalises to the modulus, the distance from the origin. Rudin's Principles of Mathematical Analysis develops absolute value as a norm satisfying the triangle inequality, the basis for defining distance, limits, and convergence. The referent is a non-negative size attached to a number or vector, a precise formal quantity. It is unrelated to a fragrance extract or a metaphysical totality despite the shared word.[2]

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The non-negative magnitude of a number, |x|

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Defined exactly: |x| equals x or -x, whichever is non-negative; the distance from zero