The Question of Intensive Magnitudes According to Some Jesuits in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Locke's Aristotelian theory of quantity

“…See also Pasnau (2021, 11): "Indeed, the additive theory effectively seeks to treat qualitative change on the model of quantitative change." For extensive discussions of the medieval debate about qualitative change, see also Clagett (1950), Maier (1952), Sylla (1973), Solère (2001Solère ( , 2008Solère ( , and 2012, and Jung (2011).…”

Policing Intensity

“…The "thing" in "the more-or-lessness of things" is a hypernym or superordinate, enveloping or extending to any entity or event whose contents admit of a "more" or a "less" in some context. For genealogical approaches to the issue of intensity or intensive magnitudes see Mader (2014) and Solère (2001). For a foundational critique of the notion of intensive magnitudes see Bergson ([1889Bergson ([ ] 1910.…”