Sentence examples for quantified things from inspiring English sources

Perhaps the most interesting question concerns the fact that some of the species in quantity appear to be quantified things rather than quantities themselves.

The seven species of quantity are quantified by themselves, whereas other quantified things (for example: corporeal substances) are quantified in virtue of one or more of the seven species (EP, ch. de quantitate, fol. 29va).

So, in the first instance, we can ask: does Aristotle intend his division of Quantity to be a division of quantities or quantified things?

For if relations are really distinct from their foundations, then it follows that God can create the foundations without the corresponding relations and hence absurdly that, say, two white things could exist without being similar, or two quantified things without being either equal or unequal.

He felt you really have to quantify things".

This divide exists in the mind of people who need to quantify things.

And in the years after the Second World War — which accelerated the trend toward quantifying things — the amount of economic information available to policymakers grew exponentially.

"As an auditor and investigator for the federal government, I was used to the idea of quantifying things, and I knew I had better be accurate".

He freely confesses that this index looks fakely numeric, even a little "philistine," but quantifies things otherwise left to impressionistic guesses.

"I'm an engineer, and I need to quantify things for my own sake," said Mr. Delgadillo.

"Economists love quantifying things," he said, "but there are so many possible interpretations, it doesn't settle debates as much as it opens up questions".