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weight

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ology (the study of)

trivia

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linguistics

Noam Chomsky

social distancing

exactness

Mount Everest

Thomas Jefferson

height

width

cooking

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Englishman

salary

inch

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perfume

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Solo cup

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is but the recording of the answer Nature gives to the questions we pose in the form of an experiment.

is divisible on the one hand into measurement by ruler in order to make things available and controllable and the other concerns 'striking the right measure', of finding what is appropriate.

In his dialogue about the true statesman [the Statesman], Plato at one point speaks at some length about this ability. He starts out by presupposing that two different ways of measuring are possible, and both appear to be indispensable. In the first form of measuring one goes after things with a ruler in order to make them available and controllable, like the meter ruler in Paris that all other metric measurements must follow. In this case one is clearly concerned with what the Greeks called poison, 'quantity.' The second kind of measuring consist of striking the 'right measure,' of finding what is appropriate. We experience this, for example, in the wonder of harmonious tones sounding together, or in the harmonious feeling of well-being that we call 'health.' This concerns what the (Greeks called poison, (Gadamer late writing : 114)

is either measurement of quality (ruler measurement) for the purpose of controlling things or measurement of quality (appropriateness) where one strikes the 'right measure' either in musical harmony or in health.

In his dialogue about the true statesman [the Statesman], Plato at one point speaks at some length about this ability. He starts out by presupposing that two different ways of measuring are possible, and both appear to be indispensable. In the first form of measuring one goes after things with a ruler in order to make them available and controllable, like the meter ruler in Paris that all other metric measurements must follow. In this case one is clearly concerned with what the Greeks called poison, 'quantity.' The second kind of measuring consist of striking the 'right measure,' of finding what is appropriate. We experience this, for example, in the wonder of harmonious tones sounding together, or in the harmonious feeling of well-being that we call 'health.' This concerns what the (Greeks called poison, 'quality.'Gadamer 'late writings' 'from word to concept' : 114)

is measurement is such that when studying faces, we do measure them, but as painters, not as surveyors.

And so when studying faces, we do indeed measure them, but as painters, not as surveyors.

is the language of God. God created everything by number, weight and measure.

God created everything by number, weight and measure. Isaac Newton

is everything. What gets measured gets done.

is vital to existence --- Nothing exists until it is measured.

is not a property of the thing measured when we go about measuring something.

The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.

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