ABSTRACT
Thus it would seem that Herr Meinong’s theory, with which we began, is substantially correct; it requires emendation, on the above view, only in this, that a zero magnitude is the denial of the defining concept of a kind of magnitudes, not the denial of any one particular magnitude, or of all of them. We shall have to hold that any concept which defines a kind of magnitudes defines also, by its negation, a particular magnitude of the kind, which is called the zero of that kind, and is less than all other members of the kind. And we now reap the benefit of the absolute distinction which we made between the defining concept of a kind of magnitude, and the various magnitudes of the kind. The relation which we allowed between a particular magnitude and that of which it is a magnitude was not identified with the class-relation, but was held to be sui generis; there is thus no contradiction, as there would be in most theories, in supposing this relation to hold between no pleasure and pleasure, or between no distance and distance.
