quantitative character
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They could not, as they conceived the physical world, accept its purely quantitative character.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.
Its force-relations with ponderable matter are not only universally and incessantly maintained, but they have that precisely quantitative character which implies an essential identity between the innermost natures of the two substances.
From The Unseen World and Other Essays by Fiske, John
The charge is the quantitative character of certain events due to the ingression of the electron into nature.
From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North
The situation of an electron in any small duration may be defined as that event which has the quantitative character which is the charge of the electron.
From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North
This involves an analysis of the whole significance of the qualitative and quantitative character of a population, with reference to any given values—standards of living, individual level of efficiency, liberty and determinism, etc.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra
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