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CONTENTS.
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5. All men are equally cognisant of the absolute, 378
6. A reminder, 379
7. Confusion might have been obviated had it been shown that all men are equally cognisant of the absolute, 379
8. The difficulty is, not to know it, but to know that we know it, 380
9. Refutation of the relationist doctrine, 380
10. Kant on the Absolute, 381
11. The relation of non-contradictories and the relation of contradictories, 383
PROPOSITION XXII.
The Contingent Conditons of Knowledge, 384
Demonstration, 384
Observations and Explanations, 385
1. This proposition takes us out of necessary into contingent truth, 385
2. It is introduced in order that the necessary may be separated from the contingent laws, 386
3. Why this analysis is indispensable, 387
4. What is required in setting about this analysis, 388
5. The analysis illustrated, 388
6. The analysis illustrated, 390
7. It is unnecessary to carry the analysis into greater detail, 391
8. How these remarks qualify the doctrine of the absolute given in Proposition XXI., 392
9. The absolute, however, is still object + subject. The main result of the epistemology, 393
10. Twenty-second Counter-proposition, 393
11. The chief point to be attended to in it, 394
12. The cause of the errors of representation ism pointed out., 394
13. The same subject continued, 396
14. The cause of Berkeley's errors pointed out, 397
15. The main result of the epistemology, 399
16. The importance of this result, 401
SECTION II.
THE AGNOIOLOGY, OR THEORY OF IGNORANCE.
PROPOSITION I.
What Ignorance is, 405
Demonstration, 405
Observations and Explanations, 405
1. Why this proposition is introduced, 405
2. Novelty of the agnoiology, 406
3. The agnoiology is indispensable, 406
4. The plea of our ignorance a bar to ontology, 407
5. This obstacle can be removed only by an inquiry into the nature of ignorance, 408
6. First Counter-proposition, 408