Page:Ferrier's Works Volume 1 - Institutes of Metaphysic (1875 ed.).djvu/477

RhPROP. VIII.————. In short, the overthrow of the whole agnoiology would be the consequence of the denial of the proposition which asserts that ignorance is a defect or imperfection. But inasmuch as this denial is absurd and demonstratively false, it is conceived that the theory is in no danger of being subverted on that or on any other ground. For the satisfaction, however, of those who may refuse to embrace this new theory of ignorance, the logical data on which their opposition must be grounded have been considerately supplied.