Quantity
Magnitude and number: how much and how many.
Works to read
- Theaetetus by Plato, c. 369 BC · Great Books
- Philebus by Plato, c. 350 BC · Great Books
- Principia by Isaac Newton, 1687 · Great Books
- A Mathematician's Apology by G. H. Hardy, 1940 · Great Books
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne, 1759-1767
- The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1872
Passages
Expressions which are in no way composite signify substance, quantity, quality, relation, place, time, position, state, action, or affection
— Aristotle, Categories
We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an equal quantity of matter exists both before and after the experiment
— Antoine Lavoisier, Elements of Chemistry
Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold, and which may be increased or diminished in quantity, has its natural and its market price.
— David Ricardo, On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
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