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  1. William O. writes: >> I think you should discuss Pythagoras much, much earlier. Thanks for the feedback. I hadn't considered that. Let me think on that and try to find a natural way to include that earlier. jacassidy2 writes >> the measurement may not be a matter of math, but of comparative intensity in the process of differentiation and integration ​But I think that "comparative intensity" would be mathematical.
  2. Ayn Rand's measurment-omission solution to the problem of universals rests on the principle that everything is quantitative: every referent subsumed under every concept must be quantitative or else the referent would have no measurements to omit. Aristotle included the concept 'quantity' in his list of basic axiomatic categories. Question: where does the concept 'quantity' fit in the Objectivist hierarchy of concepts? My answer is the concept 'quantity' is co-extensive with 'existence' and 'identity'. I call this point the Law of Quantity, and I have written an entire essay on it, expanding Ayn Rand's "Existence is Identity; Consciousness is Identification" principle as follows: Existence is Identity is Quantity; Change is Causality is Time; Consciousness is Identification is Quantification; Matter is Potential is Eternal; Form is Actual is Temporal. The essay (actually the first chapter of a planned treatise on metaphysics I have in my head) with a full explanation of these integrations is available online: http://1drv.ms/1HWzOfj
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