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The Cultural Phenomenology of Qualitative quantity - work in progress

The Cultural Phenomenology of Qualitative quantity - work in progress

borislav dimitrov
Abstract
This study is about the Quality. Here I have dealt with the quality that differs significantly from the common understanding of quality /as determined quality/ that arise from the law of dialectics. This new quality is the quality of the quantity /quality of the quantitative changes/, noticed in philosophy by Plato as “quality of numbers”, and later developed by Hegel as “qualitative quantity. The difference between the known determined quality and qualitative quantity is evident in the exhibit form of these two qualities. The exhibit form of the known determined quality from the law of dialectics /or it transformation/ is related with discreteness and abrupt changes. The exhibit form of the qualitative quantity /and it transformation/ is related with the continuity and gradual transition from one condition, to a different condition, without any abrupt changes. The concept of the quality of numbers or qualitative quantity is investigated and devoloped in the body of works of Jule Henry Poincare, in particular his topology as general study of continuity. I argue here, that topological homeomorphism is an exhibit form of the qualitative quantity. In this sense, the concept of the qualitative quantity answers the question - what are the archetypal topological properties /after Ian Stewart/ of the qualitative quantity in the broad context of the model of The Cultuaral Phenomenology of Quality. Folowing the direction of Ian Stewart regading the need of the new concepts, concepts not part of everyday experience, concepts for which no words exists, I propose the Cultuaral Phenomenology of Qualitative quantity as an “continuum” model, which explains variation as involving a gradual qualitative transition without abrupt changes or discontinuities, in contrast with “categorical” model of quality and quantity in the law of dialectics, which propose qualitatively and quantitatively different states of measure. The measure of qualitative quantity is the archetypal topological measure. The concept of qualitative quantity is dialectics of continuity applicable to the non-linear systems, complex dynamic and chaos theory.

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