CONTENTS.
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| PROPOSITION VII. | ||
| Ignorance of the Ego per se, | 430 | |
| Demonstration, | 430 | |
| Observations and Explanations, | 430 | |
| 1. | Design and effect of this proposition, | 430 |
| 2. | Seventh Counter-proposition, | 431 |
| 3. | What the agnoiology does next, | 431 |
| PROPOSITION VIII. | ||
| The Object of All Ignorance, | 432 | |
| Demonstration, | 432 | |
| Observations and Explanations, | 433 | |
| 1. | Relation of this proposition to Proposition II. of the epistemology, | 433 |
| 2. | The object of ignorance is neither nothing nor the contradictory, | 434 |
| 3. | It is believed that this doctrine is new, | 435 |
| 4. | What has caused this doctrine to be missed, | 436 |
| 5. | Another circumstance which has caused it to be missed, | 437 |
| 6. | In fixing the object of ignorance this proposition does not deny its magnitude, | 438 |
| 7. | How far the object of ignorance is definable, and how far it is not definable, | 439 |
| 8. | The advantage of discriminating the necessary from the contingent laws of knowledge, | 440 |
| 9. | This system is more humble in its pretensions than other systems, | 442 |
| 10. | Eighth Counter-proposition, | 443 |
| 11. | The grounds on which it rests are false, | 443 |
| 12. | Illustration of the difference between the speculative and the ordinary view in regard to the object of ignorance, | 444 |
| 13. | The substantial and absolute in ignorance, | 446 |
| 14. | The main result of the agnoiology shortly stated, | 446 |
| 15. | Concluding remark, | 447 |
| SECTION III. | ||
| THE ONTOLOGY, OR THEORY OF BEING. | ||
| PROPOSITION I. | ||
| The Three Alternatives as to Absolute Existence, | 453 | |
| Demonstration, | 453 | |
| Observations and Explanations, | 454 | |
| 1. | The problem of ontology stated, | 454 |
| 2. | Its three alternatives are exhaustive, | 454 |
| 3. | The third alternative has to be eliminated, | 455 |
| 4. | First Counter-proposition, | 456
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