Critique of Lorenz Puntel's Argument Against the Hegelian Dialectic

The article responds to Lorenz Puntel's criticism of the Hegelian dialectic, which he claims is unintelligible because it involves infinite regress, results in the absence of methodological metalevel and in arbitrary use of negativity. It is argued that these objections stem from an externalist reading, incompatible with the self-reference proper to Hegel's speculative method. The dialectical process is reinterpreted as convergent, self-legitimate, and productively contradictory. On the basis of our formal system, centered on the function Φ, the convergence criterion ConvΦ, and the self-contradicted identity A⮂ A, we demonstrate that dialectics can be reconstructed with logical precision, without losing its conceptual dynamism