We judge the psychical according to its qualitative value, and the physical according to its quantitative value.
It includes those relations of psychical elements and compounds which are connected with certain limiting values of the qualitative and quantitative components of a whole.
The qualitative resultant of this whole, which here again is concentrated on the apperception of the last impression and which makes an immediate repetition possible, has, however, become very much richer.
A complex aesthetic feeling is a resultant of the simpler aesthetic feelings bound to the different parts of the perception, in so far as these latter again determine the product by means of their qualitative relations.
Among these the pair of contrasts of pleasure and displeasure may be looked upon as a modification of the attracting and opposing elements, which are directly connected with the qualitative constitution of the impression or the idea.
The aggregate feeling concentrated at the end of each row of beats possesses each time a qualitative colouring dependent upon the constitution of the rhythm.
The retinal sensations by means of local differences in quality, which we may call qualitative local signs, correspond to definite sensations of movement graduated as to intensity, which we may call intensive local signs.
Thus the physical phenomena investigated by the natural sciences and the laws of these phenomena do not in the least contradict the qualitative content of life dealt with by psychology.
This relation can, as regards its qualitative content, be a most extraordinarily varying one, so that, in regard to the quality of the elements and their combinations, the separate psychical processes cannot be compared.
Thus the qualitative shades of feeling that are bound to the idea come to represent the idea itself.
Thirdly, qualitative motion, or that which is accordant to properties of matter.
It is something which the facts, the qualitative space and time things, must bear the burden of, must accept and take unto themselves as part of themselves.
The manifold matter of ideas is brought before us, not only in the systematic order of its qualitative relationships, but in the rich variety of local and temporal combinations.
In these cases, indeed, it may fairly be said that the mistake is made because qualitativething and suggested or meaning-relation were not discriminated.
The elements, moreover, are all specifically qualitative and some of them, at least, are spatial.
The homogeneity of qualitative relationships, in the pre-thought material, gives the tools or instruments by which thought is enabled successfully to tackle the heterogeneity of collocations and conjunctions also found in the same material!
He was led to this correct conviction by his belief in the qualitative unity of all the forces of nature - a reflexion, as his biography shows, of his strongly monotheistic, Old Testament faith.
Later in this book there will be occasion to introduce a concept of number in tune with our qualitative world-outlook.
There, without recognizing a qualitative distinction between them, he refers to the faculty of rubbed amber and of certain pieces of iron to attract other small pieces of matter.
From the quantitative equality of expended and generated energy was it not natural to argue the qualitative similarity of the two forms of energy, which only externally seemed different?
Note how the qualitative dynamic method employed here brings into direct view the relationship between light and electricity, while it precludes the mistake of tracing light processes to those of electricity, as modern science does.
Yet, between these two manifestations of heat there is an essential qualitative difference.
This is necessary in a cosmology which aspires at a qualitative understanding of the universe, in view of the qualities represented by these names.
The onlyqualitative distinction they seemed to recognize was between 'cold' and 'warm' colours.
Besides the external order of matter revealed in space-form, there exists also an inner qualitative order expressed in a body's chemical composition.
The Need of Qualitative Analysis of the Census We must not be staggered by mere figures.
In the last analysis the terms rural and urban are qualitative rather than quantitative.
Pairs of bodies of different qualitative properties unite in different mass-ratios; but no connexion between the first and the last is to be noted, at first.
Whether we consider this freedom predetermined or not, does not at all alter the described fact and the qualitative difference between the form of human moral agency and that of purely animal spontaneity.
The differences in the results may be of a qualitative nature, but analysis shows that the differences in the determinants are only quantitative.
This libido we distinguished from the energy which is to be generally adjudged to the psychic processes with reference to its special origin and thus we attribute to it also a qualitative character.
They are all disturbances of proper metabolism, by some irregularity of the quantitative or qualitative condition of the blood.
They are all disturbances of metabolism through some irregularity in the quantitative or qualitative condition of the blood.
Physical agents are, however, employed by the chemist as a means to an end; while in physics proper the laws and phenomena of the agents themselves, bothqualitative and quantitative, are the primary objects of attention.
When, for instance, the human mind acquires knowledge, it undergoes qualitative change.
So also in the domains of sensible qualities, such as sounds and colours, we have an analogous intuition of a qualitative series, and we naturally try to detect harmony, which is the gradation of qualitative relations in this series.
Qualitative change is wider than material change, for it includes changes in spiritual beings, i.
Aristotle would not allow that the objective material universe can be denuded, in the way just suggested, of qualities and qualitative change; and scholastic philosophers have always held the same general view.
But matter, too, has qualities, and is subject toqualitative change.
To transfer qualitative change from object to subject, from matter to mind, is certainly something very different from explaining it as reducible to quantitative or mechanical change.
Kohn, would go far to prove the adaptability of this method as a substitute for or aid in ordinary qualitative examinations.
Beyond the detection of mineral poisons, qualitative electrolysis can only offer attraction to analysts in special cases, and the data on the subject are to be found in the many electrolytic methods already published.
In a somewhat different manner the voltaic current is made use of in ordinary qualitative analysis for the detection of tin, antimony, silver, lead, arsenic, etc.
The significance of the distinction lies in the intermediation of the general organic unity, not in a qualitative division.
An individual whose mind was wholly formed in this way might be compared to a well-arranged museum, where everything is classified and arranged on the basis of qualitative identity.
A system of knowledge may be related as regards its parts by some qualitative or quantitative bond of identity.
Whereas the Pythagoreans had denied the qualitative aspect of things, leaving themselves only with the quantitative, the Eleatics denied both quantity and quality, for in denying multiplicity they denied quantity.
They stripped off the qualitative aspect from things, and were accordingly left with only quantity as ultimate reality.
But at the same time it meant a restoration of the homogeneity of experience, the reëstablishment of the qualitative world of every-day living, and so had its basis of appeal to common-sense.
A leading moral of the history of science is the superior usefulness of an exact account of the workings of nature to an explanation in terms of some qualitative potency.
But their intrinsic qualitative character is not reckoned with, even in psychology, where the physiological method finally replaces them with brain states.
A chief fact of progress has been, in a word, the supersession of the quantitative by the qualitative criterion of survival-value.
But a people moving along the line of progress, seeking ever a more highly qualitative life, will demand that a larger proportion of their energy shall be given to the production and consumption of intellectual goods.
That this is not true of the most highly-skilled or qualitative work must be conceded, but it applies with great force to the bulk of lower-skilled labour.
In proportion as a community comes to substitute a qualitative for a quantitative standard of living, it escapes the limitations imposed by matter upon man.
So far the consideration of reformed qualitative consumption has been confined to material goods.
The difficulty of maintaining a small, even, accurate pressure, or a precise repetition of the same movement, is rather a qualitative than a purely quantitative limit.
It is hardly too much to say that the whole of social progress depends upon the substitution of qualitative for quantitative methods of consumption.
Professor Jevons' work upon this branch of Economics was marred by an attempt to treat it purely mathematically, that is to reduce qualitative to quantitative differences--an impossibility.
Save in extreme circumstances, no increase of the family wage can balance these losses, whose values stand upon a higher qualitative level.
We know that the lever and the inclined plane were employed during this period: implying that there was a qualitative prevision of their effects, though not a quantitative one.
We mean that all quantitative prevision is reached deductively; and that induction can achieve only qualitative prevision.
We do not mean that the deductive and the quantitative are coextensive; for there is manifestly much deduction that is qualitative only.
Weights imply scales, of which we have also mention; and scales involve the primary theorem of mechanics in its least complicated form--involve not a qualitativebut a quantitative prevision of mechanical effects.
And here, as another aspect of the same fact, we may further observe that as we pass from qualitative to quantitative prevision, we pass from inductive science to deductive science.
There is not only qualitativebut quantitative prevision.
The single hair need not have changed in this process, and yet the spot has virtually undergone a qualitative modification.
In considering this question it should be carefully borne in mind that by far the largest part of the qualitative modifications falling under this head rest on quantitative changes.
The majority of the changes that appear to us qualitative rest on invisible quantitative changes, and such can be produced at all times and at all stages {48} of the vital units by germinal selection.
Nothing would be easier, now, than to extend Zeno's argument to qualitative becoming and to evolutionary becoming.
Whether the movement be qualitative or evolutionary or extensive, the mind manages to take stable views of the instability.
The qualitative distinction between the fides credenda and theology was noticed neither by Irenæus nor by Hippolytus and Tertullian.
A qualitative difference exists when some quality or trait possessed by one individual is lacking in the other.
A qualitativedifference in intellect or character is thus really a quantitative difference wherein one term is zero, or a compound of two or more quantitative differences.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "qualitative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
