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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties

23227	Each object has a precise number of properties, each to a precise degree [Fichte]
	Full Idea: Each object has a definite number of properties, no more, no less. …Each of these objects possesses each of these properties to a definite degree.
	From: Johann Fichte (The Vocation of Man [1800], 1)
	A reaction: Quine flatly disagrees with this. Fichte offers no grounds for his claim. On the whole I think of properties as psychologically abstracted by us from holistic objects, so there is plenty of room for error. The underlying powers are real.