  It would help to reread this passage with the following interpretative suggestions in mind. First, following Zalta (1983), we want to interpret Mally’s notion of objectives (Objektive) in terms of the modern notion of a property, though the notion of attribute would also be appropriate. The linguistic expressions which signify objectives are just open formulas like ‘Px’, ‘Rxy’, etc. Therefore, in what follows, we use ‘property’ instead of ‘objective’. Second, we can understand Mally’s notion of satisfying an objective in terms of the modern notion of instantiating or exemplifying a property. Finally, let us replace Mally’s talk of ‘formdeterminates’ by the talk of ‘conceptual objects’. In contrast to ordinary objects, the characteristic form of conceptual objects is determined by certain properties rather than by the properties it may instantiate.  Although we have made these terminological substitutions for interpreting Mally, we hope that the new terminology is close to Mally’s original intent. So, using our modern terminology, we would say that conceptual objects are determined by a certain group of properties and don’t necessarily instantiate the properties that determine them.  Moreover, the property of being a conceptual object is one which implies that the objects which instantiate it are abstract entities. For an alternative interpretation of Mally’s concept of determination, understood as encoding, see Linsky 2014.