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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. |