| One way of spelling out what is missing in the paracomplete language is to introduce a new notion of determinateness, so that the status of the Liar is that of not being determinately true. |
| But the determinateness of quantity is number, and this is the principle and standpoint of Pythagoreanism. |
| Essentia is the nature belonging irrevocably to the being of this actuality as the foundation of the quidditative determinateness of such an existent. |
| Thus, from every example, we may see that Quantity always concerns a Beingness, which is indifferent to the very determinateness which it now, or at any time, has. |
| This determinateness of arrangement is the structure of a state of affairs. |
| Abelard also distinguished between determinateness and certainty. |
