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RhPROP. II.———— may be conceded. At any rate, it is unnecessary to trouble ourselves with it any further, because the third alternative concluded for in Proposition I., which this counter-proposition rejects summarily, and without a hearing, is the very point which this system rejects after having submitted it (in Props. I. II. III. IV.) to a fair and legitimate trial. So that the system may here take credit for having raised, of its own accord, and surmounted by legitimate means, a difficulty or objection which would not have been thrown in its way, either by ordinary thinking or by psychology, If this third alternative could not have been logically got rid of, the ontology would have been brought to a stand-still.