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4.	Its negative character is to be attended to principally,	528
5.	The first step which the system takes in its negative or polemical character,	528
6.	The next step which the system takes in its negative or polemical character,	529
7.	The capital contradiction which the epistemology brings to light and corrects,	529
8.	The second contradiction which it corrects,	530
9.	The third contradiction which it corrects,	531
10.	The fourth and fifth contradictions which it corrects,	531
11.	The propositions and counter-propositions fall into groups,	531
12.	The sixth contradiction which the epistemology corrects,	532
13.	The seventh contradiction which it corrects,	533
14.	The eighth contradiction which it corrects,	533
15.	The ninth contradiction which it corrects,	534
16.	The tenth contradiction which it corrects.,	534
17.	The eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth contradictions which it corrects,	535
18.	The remaining contradictions which it corrects.,	535
19.	The leading contradiction which the agnoiology corrects,	536
20.	The derivative contradictions which it corrects,	537
21.	The concluding contradiction which it corrects,	537
22.	The opinions entertained by natural thinking, and to some extent by psychology, on the subject of "Being,",	538
23.	How the ontology goes to work in exposing the contradictions involved in these opinions,	538
24.	Exposure and refutation of these contradictions,	539
25.	The ninth contradiction which the ontology corrects,	539
26.	The tenth contradiction which the ontology corrects,	540
27.	The eleventh contradiction which the ontology corrects,	540
28.	By the correction of these contradictions, the system has redeemed its pledge,	541
29.	The utility of philosophical study,	541
30.	As a discipline of necessary and demonstrated truth,	542
PAPERS SUPPLEMENTARY
Letter to Mr De Quincy,		547
Appendix to 'Institutes of Metaphysic,'		553
Letter on some Objections to the 'Institutes,'		582