Sentence examples for species of quantity from inspiring English sources

Moreover he employs this property as the common principle from which the seven species of quantity can be derived (EP, ch. de quantitate, fol. 30ra).

In Alyngton's view, the seven species of quantity correspond to the seven possible ways of measuring the being (esse) of the material substance.

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).

This is problematic, however, for if the highest genus of the category is a form, Aristotle's seven species of quantity (line, surface, solid, time, space, number, and speech), mentioned in the sixth chapter of the Categories, are not.

Alyngton tries to meet this difficulty by reformulating the notion of quantified-thing (quantum), and by proposing a method for deducing the seven species of quantity from the highest genus (a sort of sufficientia quantitatum).

Only the seven species of quantity would be quanta by themselves, while any other quantum would be such per accidens, and so indirectly, because of its connection to one (or more) of the seven quanta per se (In Cat., cap. de quantitate, fol. 116r).

They contain most of the region's biological diversity - significant both in terms numbers of species (quantity) and species endemism (quality).

There is a greater number of species and quantity of organisms isolated than these specimens compared with bladder urine collected simultaneously.

Stock assessment scientists and fishery managers operate under the necessary assumption that the identities of species and quantities of catch from industry landing reports are known without error.

Moreover, why does Aristotle include speech as a species in the category of quantity?

Aristotle's list of species in the Category of Quantity is thus not merely puzzling but seems to commit Aristotle to a contradiction.