ULTIMATE REALITIES PRIMARILY KNOWN IN PERCEPTIVE INTUI-
TION; BEING AND ITS MODES OF EXISTENCE.
31. INFERENCES.-I. Knowledge ontological in its beginning. Critical point
against agnosticism.-II. Knowledge begins as knowledge of personal
beings and impersonal. Mansel's objection. Excludes materialism and
idealism. Kant's phenomenalism. J. G. Fichte's attempt to avoid it by
knowledge of self. Hegel's attempt to avoid it. His near approach to the
true philosophy and his failure. These failures prove that knowledge
must begin ontological if it ever becomes so.—III. Knowledge begins as
knowledge of determinate being. 1. Excludes the error that being is
primarily in the genus or the universal. 2. Being is not the one only sub-
stance of pantheism. 3. Finite persons and things are real beings.-IV.
Being is not an attribute but the subject of attributes. Not the sum
total of all attributes. Affirmation of being not the weakest of affirma-
tions. Attributes common to all beings.-V. Determinateness of being
is not limitation. Omnis determinatio negatio est. The fallacy of ag-
nostics and pantheists in reasoning from this maxim. God determinate
but not limited.--VI. Origin and necessity in perceptive intuition of the
distinction of science into physical and metaphysical
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THE TRUE: THE FIRST ULTIMATE IDEA OF REASON.
32. THE FIVE ULTIMATE IDEAS OF REASON.-Meaning. Noumena. The
Five Realities of rational Intuition named and defined. Rational Intui-
tion does not give knowledge of being.