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CONTENTS.
| 23. | Mistakes of the historians of philosophy as to substance, | 355 |
| 24. | A traditional dogma about disdaining the senses, | 356 |
| 25. | The true meaning of turning the mind away from the senses, | 357 |
| 26. | What the ancient philosophers meant by this dogma, | 359 |
| 27. | Contrast between speculation and psychology in their views of substance and phenomenon, | 360 |
| 28. | Speculation proved to be right even by a reference to experience, | 361 |
| PROPOSITION XVIII. | ||
| The Relative in Cognition, | 363 | |
| Demonstration, | 363 | |
| Observations and Explanations, | 363 | |
| 1. | The same error is continually reappearing under new forms—must be unmasked under all its disguises, | 364 |
| 2. | Hence the necessity of Props. XVIII., XIX., XX., XXI., | 365 |
| 3. | Eighteenth Counter-proposition, | 366 |
| 4. | It is shown to be contradictory, | 366 |
| PROPOSITION XIX. | ||
| What the Relative in Cognition is, | 367 | |
| Demonstration, | 367 | |
| Observations and Explanations, | 368 | |
| 1. | Why the items mentioned in the proposition can be known only as the relative, | 368 |
| 2. | Nineteenth Counter-proposition, | 368 |
| 3. | Its fallacy shown, | 369 |
| PROPOSITION XX. | ||
| The Absolute in Cognition, | 370 | |
| Demonstration, | 370 | |
| Observations and Explanations, | 371 | |
| 1. | Nothing is affirmed as to the existing Absolute, | 371 |
| 2. | Comment on definition of the known Absolute, | 371 |
| 3. | Twentieth Counter-proposition, | 372 |
| 4. | This counter-proposition is a reiteration of Counter-proposition XVI., | 372 |
| PROPOSITION XXI. | ||
| What the Absolute in Cognition is, | 373 | |
| Demonstration, | 373 | |
| Observations and Explanations, | 374 | |
| 1. | Comment on demonstration of Proposition XXI., | 374 |
| 2. | Twenty-first Counter-proposition, | 374 |
| 3. | Fruitlessness of the controversy respecting the Absolute and the Relative. The philosophical temper, | 375 |
| 4. | The causes of confusion in this controversy, | 377 |
