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PROPOSITION X.
WHAT ABSOLUTE EXISTENCE IS.
Absolute Existence is the synthesis of the subject and object—the union of the universal and the particular—the concretion of the ego and non-ego; in other words, the only true, and real, and independent Existences are minds-together-with-that-which-they-apprehend.
DEMONSTRATION.
Absolute Existence is either that which we know or that which we are ignorant of, (Prop. V., Ontology). If Absolute Existence is that which we know, it must be the synthesis of subject and object—the union of the universal and the particular, the concretion of the ego and the non-ego, because this, and this alone, is knowable (Props. I. II. VI. IX., Epistemology). This synthesis alone is the conceivable (Prop. XIII., Epistemology). This, and
