Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Peirce , Charles Sanders (2011-03-18), Philosophical Writings of Peirce, Courier Dover Publications, Retrieved on 2012-06-20Source Material [books.google.com]
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20 JUN 2012
The Importance of Quantification
The rudest numerical scales, such as that by which the mineralogists distinguish different degrees of hardness, are found useful. The mere counting of pistils and stamens sufficed to bring botany out of total chaos into some kind of form. It is not, however, so much from counting as from measuring, not so much from the conception of number as from that of continuous quantity, that the advantage of mathematical treatment comes. Number, after all, only serves to pin us down to a precision in ou...Folksonomies: measurement quantification
Folksonomies: measurement quantification
Even rough numerical scales are better than nothing.