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PROPOSITION VIII.
THE OBJECT OF ALL IGNORANCE.
The object of all ignorance, whatever it may be, is always something more than is usually regarded as the object. It always is, and must be, not any particular thing merely, but the synthesis of the particular and the universal: it must always consist of a subjective as well as of an objective element; in other words, the object of all ignorance is, of necessity, some-object-plus-some-subject.
DEMONSTRATION.
There can be an ignorance only of the knowable (Prop. III. Agnoiology). But the only knowable is the union of the objective and subjective—the synthesis of the universal and particular—the concretion of the ego and the non-ego. (Props. I. II. III. VI. and IX. Epistemology). Therefore
