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18 subjective knowledge is it possible to proceed to objective knowledge. Hence it has been said,


 * By Hui Tzŭ.

'The objective emanates from the subjective; the subjective is consequent upon the objective. This is the Alternation Theory.' Nevertheless, when one is born, the other dies. When one is possible, the other is impossible. When one is affirmative the other is negative. Which being the case, the true sage rejects all distinctions of this and that. He takes his refuge in, and places himself in subjective relation with all things.


 * It was to this end that Tzŭ Ch'i "buried himself."

"And inasmuch as the subjective is also objective, and the objective also subjective, and as the contraries under each are indistinguishably blended, does it not become impossible for us to say whether subjective and objective really exist at all?

It is as though we were to view them through a kind of mental Pseudoscope, by which means each would appear to be the other.
 * What is positive under the one will be negative under the other. Yet as subjective and objective are really one and the same, their positives and negatives must also be one and the same.

"When subjective and objective are both without their correlates, that is the very axis of . And when that axis passes through the centre at which all Infinities converge, positive and negative alike blend into an infinite . Hence it has