...This article deals with Leibniz’s most penetrating and influential criticism of the mechanical philosophy, specifically Descartes’ theory of force, according to which the total amount of force that God put into the universe is conserved and measurable in terms of ‘quantity...

... the classical period onwards. This compares unfavourably to Alain Badiou, who makes Georg Cantor’s breakthrough with transfinite set theory the lynchpin for his discontinuous philosophy of events. The final section argues that Hegel’s notion of quantity to quality leaps is also complicit with the reformism...

...; vowel quantity; the lexical distribution of vowel phonemes. It finds that although the lexical distribution of vowel phonemes is mostly of English origin, their quality and, especially, quantity show considerable evidence of input from Scots. bath lexical set lexical distribution palm lexical set...

... they intersect with themselves and quantities or “number,” where they trace a spatial and temporal loop. Instead of thinking about number and quantity as an arbitrary mental construction unique to humans or eternal Platonic form, there is an attempt to offer a compelling materialist alternative based on movement...

... focus is in outlining how to theorize questions of quantity, scale, and measure in ways that acknowledges earlier theoretical body of work in photographic and visual theory but also demonstrates how these terms are key to understanding the so-called mass image. Kessels Erik discourse representation...

... remarks about Engels’s and Plekhanov’s dialectics, this did not lead Lenin to reject the core principles of dialectical materialism. Indeed, it is demonstrated that Lenin neither intended to nor accomplished a refoundation of Marxist dialectics in 1914. The notion of quantity-quality leaps Lenin adds...

...The book addresses quantity and scale in contemporary visual culture and photography. It takes the problem of quantity as a theoretical issue that changes the premises of visual analysis. It focuses on the logic and rhetoric behind the arguments by numbers, growth, and tipping points, while...