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CHAPTER 1.
Postulates of the Seven-Fold Predications,
Correct knowledge consists in a faithful understanding of the exact nature of an object. The object, however, has almost an infinite number of features and tendencies,-some known, some in the process of being discovered e. g. by empirical sciences and many, as yet unapprehended. An ideally complete knowlege would thus practically amount to omniscience. It would involve correct understandings of all the features of the object, known and unknown and require an infinite number of propositions to be expressed and communicated to others. In the mundane sphere such a knowledge is an obvious impossibility.
What then is our ordinary knowledge which we call correot pbilosophical knowledge ? It should be remembered that philosophy aims at no discovery of properties in a thing. It is not its business to enquire what attributes, tendencies
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