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| 7. | Also by the consideration that the ego is no object of sensible experience, | 84 |
| 8. | A theory of self-consciousness at variance with Prop. I. refuted, | 85 |
| 9. | Importance of Prop. I. as foundation of the whole system, | 86 |
| 10. | It is not refuted but rather confirmed by experience, | 87 |
| 11. | Its best evidence is reason, which fixes it as a necessary truth or axiom, | 87 |
| 12. | First Counter-proposition, | 89 |
| 13. | It embodies the result of ordinary thinking and of popular psychology, | 89 |
| 14. | It is generally the starting-point of psychology, as Prop. I. is the starting-point of metaphysics, | 90 |
| 15. | A mark of distinction between the propositions and the counter-propositions, | 91 |
| 16. | Prop. I. has some affinity to Pythagorean doctrine of numbers, | 92 |
| 17. | Misunderstanding as to Pythagorean doctrine, | 93 |
| 18. | Prop. I. a higher generalisation of the Pythagorean law, | 94 |
| 19. | Anticipations of Prop. I. by the philosophers of Germany, | 94 |
| PROPOSITION II. | ||
| The Object of All Knowledge, | 97 | |
| Demonstration, | 97 | |
| Observations and Explanations, | 98 | |
| 1. | Reason for printing "itself-in-union-with-whatever-it-apprehends" as one word, | 98 |
| 2. | By the object of knowledge is meant the whole object of knowledge, | 99 |
| 3. | Change which an attention to the condition of knowledge effects upon the object of knowledge, | 100 |
| 4. | Further illustrated by the speculative, as distinguished from the ordinary mode of enumeration, | 100 |
| 5. | Second Counter-proposition, | 101 |
| 6. | It is false, because Counter-proposition I. is false, | 102 |
| 7. | It expresses the ordinary notion, and also, generally, the psychological opinion as to the object of knowledge, | 103 |
| PROPOSITION III. | ||
| The Inseparability of the Objective and the Subjective, | 105 | |
| Demonstration, | 105 | |
| Observations and Explanations, | 106 | |
| 1. | Reasons for giving this proposition a prominent place in the system, | 106 |
| 2. | What is meant by separability and inseparability in cognition, | 107 |
| 3. | A possible misapprehension obviated, | 108 |
| 4. | Inseparability in cognition not to be confounded with inseparability in space: the external and the internal, | 109 |
| 5. | The unit of cognition explained. How it is determined, | 110 |
| 6. | Importance of the words "by itself," or per se, | 111 |
| 7. | The unit of cognition further explained, | 112 |
| 8. | No essential but only an accidental difference between the minimum and the maximum of cognition, | 112 |
| 9. | Third Counter-proposition, | 113 |
