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PROPOSITION IV.
ELIMINATES THE THIRD ALTERNATIVE:
Absolute Existence is not what we neither know nor are ignorant of.
DEMONSTRATION.
Whatever we neither know nor are ignorant of is the contradictory (Prop. II.) Absolute Existence is not the contradictory (Prop. III.) Therefore Absolute Existence is not what we neither know nor are ignorant of.
OBSERVATIONS AND EXPLANATIONS.
What this proposition effects.1. This proposition clears off one of the alternatives in regard to Absolute Existence. In the next proposition the residuum which remains is enunciated and proved.
