Syllogism or inference (Schluss)¹ is the stage of the SL at which the word "rational" begins to appear.² Rationality stands for the triune structure of the Notion. "[N]ot only is the syllogism rational, but everything rational is a syllogism!" (664)³ "[CJommon chatter about reason," (664) Hegel complains, neglects to define the term. Perhaps thinking of Kant, Hegel says that 'supposedly rational cognition is mostly so busy with its objects that it forgets to cognize reason itself and only distinguishes and characterizes it by the objects that it possesses." (665) Reason is that which recognizes God, freedom, duty, etc. These are Kant's "practical" objects.⁴ Left unanswered is, What makes these objects rational? According to Hegel, they are rational because they are triune; their infinitude "is not the empty abstraction from the finite, not the universality that lacks content and determinateness, but the universality that is fulfilled or realized, the Notion that is determinate and possesses its determinateness in this true way." (665)