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Its answer is the absolute starting-point, and forms the first proposition of these Institutes§ 86. That is the first question of philosophy—the only first question which it can have; and its answer is the absolute starting-point of metaphysics. That answer is given in the first proposition of these Institutes, which proposition it constitutes.