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PROPOSITION III.
THE INSEPARABILITY OP THE OBJECTIVE AND THE SUBJECTIVE.
The objective part of the object of knowledge, though distinguishable, is not separable in cognition from the subjective part, or the ego; but the objective part and the subjective part do together constitute the unit or minimum of knowledge.
DEMONSTRATION.
If the objective part of knowledge were separable in cognition from the ego or subjective part, it could be apprehended without the ego being apprehended along with it. But this has been proved by Proposition II. to be impossible. Therefore the objective part of the object of knowledge is not separable in cognition from the subjective part, or the ego.
Again, The unit or minimum of cognition is such an amount of knowledge that if any constituent part of it be left out of account, the whole cognition of necessity disappears. But the objective plus the
