Plymouth, United Kingdom

Quantity Surveying

Bachelor's
Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: economy and administration
Qualification: BSc
Kind of studies: full-time studies
Bachelor of Science (BSc)
University website: www.plymouth.ac.uk
Quantity
Quantity is a property that can exist as a multitude or magnitude. Quantities can be compared in terms of "more", "less", or "equal", or by assigning a numerical value in terms of a unit of measurement. Quantity is among the basic classes of things along with quality, substance, change, and relation. Some quantities are such by their inner nature (as number), while others are functioning as states (properties, dimensions, attributes) of things such as heavy and light, long and short, broad and narrow, small and great, or much and little.
Surveying
Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, and science of determining the terrestrial or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them. A land surveying professional is called a land surveyor. These points are usually on the surface of the Earth, and they are often used to establish maps and boundaries for ownership, locations, such as building corners or the surface location of subsurface features, or other purposes required by government or civil law, such as property sales.
Quantity
If the quality of society could be replaced by quantity, it would be worth while to live in the world at large; but unfortunately a hundred fools in a crowd still do not produce one intelligent man.
Arthur Schopenhauer, “Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life,” Parerga und Paralipomena (1851), E. Payne, trans. (1974) Vol. 1, p. 330
Quantity
The spirit, overcome by the weight of quantity, has no longer any other criterion than efficiency.
Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace (1972), p. 140
Quantity
Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section 12, Part 3
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