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RhPROP. VII.———— from the contradiction involved in the supposition that there can be any knowledge of the ego per se from falling into the opposite contradiction of supposing that there can be any ignorance of it.

2. Seventh Counter-proposition.—"We can be ignorant, and are ignorant, of the ego per se; in other words, there can be, and there is, an ignorance of the mind in a state of pure indetermination, or with no thing or thought present to it." This counter-proposition is sufficiently demolished by the antagonist proposition, and may be left to expire without further comment.

3. The present and preceding propositions (IV. V. VI. VII.) have fixed what there can not be an ignorance of: the next article settles what alone there can be an ignorance of.