entirety
A totality exists when all objects to be considered are viewed as a unit in their set.
Delimitation and general
The Duden describes the term as:
“Set of all persons, things, processes, appearances, which due to certain matching properties, characteristics, conditions, etc. Ä. belong together ".
Duden also divides the word once into the general totality (all, all of them, all) and once into the totality related to the people ( population , mass , population ). Totality can be equated with the concept of totality, the “allness of the many in one”. Other related words are wholeness and completeness . Another possibility is to replace the associated adjective with whole . It means whole, unharmed and complete. However, to differentiate here, because quite often on the completeness of a related object while total unification of several describing objects.
Example:
Fauna (animal world) is the totality of all animals in an area.
Means: If one follows the definition, one speaks of fauna if and only if all animals in this area are viewed not as individual objects, but as a (coherent) unit.
In the following, Kant speaks of the “world concept in general”.
See also
proof
- ↑ entirety - Duden , 2018
- ↑ "This dialectical whole of generality, particularity and particularity now turns out to be a unity of diverging forces." ( Max Horkheimer : General Part. In: Studies on Authority and Family. Research reports from the Institute for Social Research. Librairie Félix Alcan Paris 1936, p. 75f; see GWF Hegel: Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Outline. §164)
- ↑ Immanuel Kant : On the form of the world of the senses and the mind and their reasons; In: Writings on Metaphysics and Logic 1; Work edition, edited by Wilhelm Weischedel ; Volume 5; suhrkamp pocket book science 188 ; ISBN 3-518-27788-X , p. 13 and following