Determinates vs. Determinables
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Description: A distinction introduced by W. E. Johnson to apply, e.g., to red and colored; by David H. Sanford.
Determinates vs. Determinables (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) First published Fri Apr 26, 2002; substantive revision Tue Feb 22, 2011 Everything red is colored, and all squares are polygons. A square is distinguished from other polygons by being four-sided, equilateral, and equiangular. What distinguishes red things from other colored things? This has been understood as a conceptual rather than scientific question. Theories of wavelengths and reflectance and sensory processing are not considered. Given just our ordinary understanding of color, it seems that what differentiates red from other colors is only redness itself. The Cambridge logician W. E. Johnson introduced the terms determinate and determinable to apply to examples such as red and colored. Chapter XI, of Johnson's Logic, Part I (1921), “The Determinate and the Determinable,†is the main text for discussion of this distinction.
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