determinability

Aesthetic determinability is defined as follows in Letter 21: The mind (Gemüt) may be said to be determinable simply because it is not determined at all; but it is also determinable inasmuch as it is determined in a way that does not exclude anything, i.e., when the determination it undergoes is of a kind which does not involve limitation.

Notes on 'Aesthetic Violence and the Legitimacy of Reading Romanticism' 2005

14 In this case, what Schiller calls aesthetic determinability, is the means by which the law that cannot be represented is represented.

Notes on 'Aesthetic Violence and the Legitimacy of Reading Romanticism' 2005

I seem to myself to be a mere conjuror's apparatus, an instrument of vision and perception, a person without personality, a subject without any determined individuality -- an instance, to speak technically, of pure "determinability" and "formability," and therefore

Amiel's Journal Henri Fr��d��ric Amiel 1885

The former is mere indetermination (it is without limits because it is without reality); the latter is aesthetic determinability (it has limits, because it embraces all reality).

Notes on 'Aesthetic Violence and the Legitimacy of Reading Romanticism' 2005

In this sense, determinability provides a certain cohesion between the products of the mind.

Salomon Maimon Thielke, Peter 2007

Substantive differences now begin to emerge between Kant's original, cautious balancing of the formal organization and the material mode of appearance of the aesthetic — that is, our "feeling" of the potential determinability of appearances and their "communicability" in propositional forms.

The Voice of Critique: Aesthetic Cognition After Kant, 1999

It is a pure potentiality, or determinability, void of substantiality, of quality, of quantity, and of all the other accidents that determine sensible being.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

But once attempt to consider it apart from that analogy by which alone we can know it, once strip it mentally of its determinability by form, and nothing — absolute nothing — remains.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

They are, under the action of the moving, or efficient, cause, the accomplishment of the determinability of matter.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

The sensuous man is already determined physically, and thenceforth he has no longer his free determinability; he must necessarily first enter into possession of this lost determinability before he can exchange the passive against an active determination.

>Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man. Letter XXIII. 1909