Spencer Heath Archive

Item 559

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Original is in item 558

Quantities are always positive. They can differ in amount or degree but there can be no absolute contrary to a quantity. It may increase or diminish but there can never be a no-quantity, a non or not having no dimensions. And as there can be no total absence of quantity, by definition, no zero, so there can be no less than nothing. Negative must always be negative of or from something. Every minus must be by departure from a prior (a priori) plus.