PROPOSITION VII.
WHAT ABSOLUTE EXISTENCE IS NOT.
Absolute existence is not the particular by itself nor is it the universal by itself; in other words, particular things prescinded from the universal have no absolute existence, nor have universal things prescinded from the particular any absolute existence.
DEMONSTRATION.
There can be no knowledge of the particular by itself (Prop. VI. Epistemology). There can be no ignorance of the particular by itself (Prop. VI. Agnoiology). But absolute existence is that of which there is either a knowledge or an ignorance (Prop. V. Ontology). Therefore absolute existence is not the particular by itself. Again, there can be no knowledge of the universal by itself (Prop. VI. Epistemology). There can be no ignorance of the universal by itself (Prop. VI. Agnoiology). But
