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THEORY OF BEING.
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PROP. X.———————

Tenth counter-proposition. object, &c.,—in other words, minds-together-with-that-which-they-apprehend are not the only true and absolute existences—but that which the mind apprehends may exist absolutely, and out of all relation to a mind; while the mind may exist absolutely, and out of all relation to any thing (or thought) apprehended." This counter-proposition, which attributes absolute existence to the contradictory, has been already sufficiently controverted.