 By philosophical critics, Dedekind’s procedure is often interpreted as follows: As his language of “abstraction”  and “creation”  suggests, he is appealing to psychological processes. And the resulting entities—“the real number” and “the natural numbers”—must then be psychological or mental entities (existing in people’s subjective consciousness). If that was correct, his position would amount to a form of psychologism about mathematics that is deeply problematic, as Frege, Husserl, and others have taught us (cf. Dummett 1995). Partly to avoid such a damning conclusion, partly to attribute more philosophical depth to Dedekind, the following reply can be found in the literature: While he does not say so explicitly, Dedekind’s psychologistic-sounding language indicates a commitment to Kantian assumptions, in particular to Kant’s transcendental psychology (Kitcher 1986, McCarty 1995, Klev 2019, cf. also Benis-Sinaceur 2008, 2015, 2018, Floyd 2013). Then again, it is not clear that this takes care of the psychologism charge fully (often also directed against Kant), so that such a response would have to be spelled out further (cf. Yap 2017, Reck 2020, building on Cassirer 1907, 1910). In itself, it also leaves unexplained the precise form of Dedekind’s “abstraction”.