Recent studies suggest that the methods used to design, maintain and compare realizations have a direct bearing on the practical application of concepts of quantity, unit and scale, no less than the definitions of those concepts (Tal forthcoming-a; Riordan 2014).
When I asked children about time with their parents, they didn't like the concepts of quantity time versus quality time.
At a time when we are all supposed to be eating less meat and embracing the concept of quality over quantity, why are we amused to see it treated like a cheap commodity with so much chucked in the bin?
Explain the concept of quality versus quantity.
It appeared clear that before, no one had a real concept of the quantity of intra-specific "variability" or even of the quantity of taxonomic biodiversity.
By introducing the concept of equivalent quantities a simulation of various physiological phenomena is possible.
One issue at the heart of this tension is the relationship between the concepts of measurement, quantity, and quantification.
To assess the validity of these positions, the concepts of measurement, quantity, and quantification should be independently defined and their relationships analyzed.
Revisions in the base set of SI units necessitated redefinitions of the concepts of chemical quantity and so Avogadro's number, and its definition, was deprecated in favor of the Avogadro constant and its definition.
Much discussion of this problem has stemmed from the work of Ludwig Boltzmann, an Austrian physicist, who showed that the concept of the thermodynamic quantity entropy could be reduced to that of randomness or disorder.
