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Quantification

noun

A limitation imposed on the variables of a proposition (as by the quantifiers 'some' or 'all' or 'no').

The act of discovering or expressing the quantity of something.

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... (1619) and others, is now brought into general acceptance by Gassendi, while the four elements are definitively discarded (Lasswitz, Geschichte der Atomistik, 1890). Still another doctrine of Democritus is now revived; an evident symptom of the quantification and mechanical interpretation of natural phenomena being furnished by the doctrine of the subjectivity of sense qualities, in which, although on varying grounds, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Gassendi, ...

— History Of Modern Philosophy - From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time • Richard Falckenberg

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