Hegel's Dialectic, Is It an Ontology?

Hegel's the first thinker for whom dialectics all of a sudden becomes itself almost an ontology. And so that's how he kind of translates dialectics from just an epistemological r something operativor rhetorical, rhetorical, right? I meanye to something that has anOntological valence, orontological weight to it. So that's the real and then he, hehe thinks, his whole movement of his thought then becomes focused on dialectics. He follows it up and to the point at which contradiction becomes irreducible. Andthen he says, we can really have contradiction,. don't you think there's something kind of radical about the identification of the