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PROPOSITION III.
A PREMISS BY WHICH THE THIRD ALTERNATIVE IS ELIMINATED.
Absolute Existence, or Being in itself is not the contradictory.
DEMONSTRATION.
There is no absurdity or contradiction involved in the supposition that something (whatever it may be), really and truly, and absolutely exists. And therefore, inasmuch as no absurdity or contradiction attaches to this supposition, no absurdity or contradiction attaches to that to which this supposition refers—namely, to Being in itself. Consequently Absolute existence, or Being in itself, is not the contradictory.
OBSERVATIONS AND EXPLANATIONS.
1. Although a demonstration of this proposition is given, none, strictly speaking, is required. The
