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PROPOSITION XXI.
WHAT THE ABSOLUTE IN COGNITION IS.
Object plus subject is the Absolute in cognition; matter mecum is the absolute in cognition; thoughts or mental states whatsoever, together with the self or subject, are the absolute in cognition; the universal in union with the particular is the absolute in cognition; the ego or mind in any determinate condition, or with any thought or thing present to it, is the absolute in cognition. This synthesis, thus variously expressed, is the Absolute, and the only Absolute, in cognition.
DEMONSTRATION.
This synthesis, thus variously expressed, is the known absolute, because it, and it alone, can be known out of relation, or without any correlative being necessarily known along with it.
