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PROPOSITION II.
Ignorance remediable,		410
Demonstration,		410
Observations and Explanations,		410
1.	All that this proposition proves,	410
2.	Second Counter-proposition,	411
PROPOSITION III.
The Law of all Ignorance,		412
Demonstration,		412
Observations and Explanations,		412
1.	Importance of this proposition,	413
2.	Symbols illustrative of the law of ignorance,	413
3.	Distinction between ignorance and a nescience of the opposites of necessary truth,	414
4.	There can be no ignorance of the opposites of the geometrical axioms.,	414
5.	There can be no ignorance of the contradictory,	415
6.	Third Counter-proposition,	416
PROPOSITION IV.
Ignorance of Objects per se,		417
Demonstration,		417
Observations and Explanations,		417
1.	The truths now pour down fast,	417
2.	Fourth Counter-proposition—is swept away,	418
PROPOSITION V.
Ignorance of Matter per se,		419
Demonstration,		419
Observations and Explanations,		419
1.	The main business of the agnoiology,	420
2.	The disadvantage of not studying necessary truth,	420
3.	The doctrine of ignorance entertained by psychology and common opinion,	421
4.	The advantage of studying necessary truth,	421
5.	The agnoiology carries out the work of the epistemology,	422
6.	Fifth Counter-proposition,	423
7.	Psychological conclusion as to our ignorance of matter per se,	423
8.	It rests on a contradictory assumption,	424
9.	The psychological conclusion, therefore, is contradictory,	425
10.	The origin of the psychological mistake pointed out,	425
11.	No ontology is possible if we can be ignorant of matter per se,	426
PROPOSITION VI.
Ignorance of the Universal and Particular,		428
Demonstration,		428
Observations and Explanations,		428
1.	Effect of this proposition,	429
2.	Sixth Counter-proposition,	429
3.	The error which it involves,	429