Auriol maintained that only five of the ten Aristotelian categories actually exist in the extra-mental world (substance, quality, quantity, action, and passion), the other five (relation, place, time, position, and state/habit) being merely conceptual or mind-dependent, i.e. resulting from an intellect conceiving one of the actual categories to be other than it is in extra-mental reality.
Antidepressant, antipsychotic, and antianxiety drugs are thought to achieve their therapeutic results by the selective inhibition or enhancement of the quantities, action, or breakdown of neurotransmitters in the brain.
During the next century, mathematicians showed that Newton's laws of motion could be rewritten in a similar vein: an orbiting planet or a hurtling cannonball moves as though it were trying to minimize a more abstract quantity called "action".
Among the nine categories of accidents, only quantity, quality, action, and affection can be the foundations of relations.
He does not have before his mind a quantitative question; he is trying to decide whether the accused committed the crime, and is not looking for some quantity of action intermediate between extremes.
Netanyahu, as diplomats have made clear and anticipated ahead of his re-election, is a known quantity whose actions in the past have left no room for any benefit of the doubt.
The approach substitutes the evaluation of closed form macroscopic equations with the design and execution of appropriately initialized short bursts of fine scale simulation; processing the simulation results yields estimates of the quantities (residuals, actions of Jacobians and Hessians) required for continuum computations.
Quantity theory in action.
From the panoramic view, each route between the two situations is characterized by a specific numerical quantity called its action.
Neeson is much less of a known quantity, certainly in action roles, and at their best the Taken films move him back and forth across the boundary between defensible and indefensible violence, never quite losing sympathy, nor ever quite taking it for granted.
The nine categories of accidents are quantity, quality, relation, action, passion, place, time, position, and state (habitus).
