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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 3. Objects in Thought

9825	A thing is completely determined by all that can be thought concerning it [Dedekind]
	Full Idea: A thing (an object of our thought) is completely determined by all that can be affirmed or thought concerning it.
	From: Richard Dedekind (Nature and Meaning of Numbers [1888], I.1)
	A reaction: How could you justify this as an observation? Why can't there be unthinkable things (even by God)? Presumably Dedekind is offering a stipulative definition, but we may then be confusing epistemology with ontology.