PROP. XIII.————
ceive this would be to conceive a contradiction—something from which the grounds of all conceivability had been removed. If the reader will consider that the general thesis laid down in Propositions I. and II. is simply this, that things and some one self are necessary to constitute the unit or minimum of all possible knowledge, and, consequently, of all possible conception, he will very readily surmount the difficulty which is here noticed, and will perceive that there is nothing in the present proposition which is at all at variance with anything that has gone before.
Thirteenth counter-proposition.11. The counter-proposition only remains to be appended. After what has been said, it will be unnecessary to offer any remarks in refutation of this contradictory product of ordinary thinking, which psychology has taken under her protection. Thirteenth counter-proposition: "The independent universe which each of us thinks of is the universe, out of synthesis or connection with every mind, subject, or self."
