  “Concerning Phenomenology” stands out not least in that it is one of the earliest attempts by a German philosopher to come to grips with Frege's work. Reinach observes that, while the division of numbers into two sorts, the ordinal and the cardinal, is generally accepted, it is widely debated which kind of number is more primitive or basic. Reinach attempts to resolve this debate, and in the process provides an account of number predications, such as “The Kaiser's coach is drawn by four horses,” of a sort treated also by Frege. He begins by noting that cardinal numbers are properly speaking not predicated of things. Frege, for example, argued that in statements such as “The Kaiser's coach is drawn by four horses” the number four is predicated of a concept, namely, horse that draws the Kaiser's coach. However, Reinach finds it to be self-evident that “a concept which subsumes four objects is just as little four as a concept which subsumes material objects is, therefore, itself material” (p. 206). Neither numbers nor categorical elements such as “some” or “all” are properties, by this argument, and accordingly they are not really predicated of things. Numbers rather give the range of objects that fall within the scope of a predication. Put another way, numbers do not answer the question “how many” but rather “how many As are B?”