Descriptive inexhaustibility
The philosophical term descriptive inexhaustibility denotes the impossibility of exhaustively specifying the properties of an individual thing in a description. Concrete things always have more properties than can be mentioned in a description. At the same time, however, they are perceptually inexhaustible, that is, they have more properties than are represented in one perception. These statements correspond with Husserl's doctrine of the abundance of objects. The descriptive inexhaustibility does not mean arbitrariness. Even if an object offers an infinite number of possibilities for correct descriptions, there can still be incorrect descriptions.
Individual evidence
- ↑ All formulations based on Keil 2006.
literature
- Geert Keil : On the descriptive inexhaustibility of individual things , in: Geert Keil / Udo Tietz (ed.): Phenomenology and Speech Analysis, Paderborn 2006, pp. 83–125