On the other hand, we may go too far in the opposite direction, as Hamilton did in proposing the universal quantification of the predicate.
Lotze's mistake is the same as that of Hamilton about the quantification of the predicate, and that of those symbolists who held that reasoning ought always to exhaust all alternatives by equations.
By means of the doctrine of the quantification of the predicate, in which with his Leibnitzian conception of identity he anticipated Beneke and Hamilton alike, universal and particular judgments are made to pull together.
Hamilton founds his proposal for explicit quantification of the predicate, viz.
The chief advantage claimed for the quantification of the predicate is that it reduces every affirmative proposition to an exact equation between its subject and predicate.
The doctrine of the Quantification of the Predicate.
The like may also be said about his other innovation, theQuantification of the Predicate.
The quantification of the predicate, instead of being a means of bringing out more clearly the meaning of the proposition, actually leads the mind out of the proposition, into another order of ideas.
Not to mention that the quantification of the predicate, instead of being a means of bringing out more clearly the meaning of the proposition, actually leads the mind out of the proposition, into another order of ideas.
What quantificationdoes do is develop a common area of discussion between propagandists and nonpropagandists.
Within our own particular kind of civilization quantification has a special appeal because of the American trust in engineering and in numbers.
In many instances quantification can demonstrate results where allegations of failure or of success would have nothing more than personal authority to support them.
Quantification may not obtain everything which its devotees claim for it.
There is, however, no danger that quantification will replace description as the sole tool of research in the propaganda field.
It dates its rise as an independent science from the discovery of what is known as “the quantification of the predicate,” claimed by Sir William Hamilton.
It led to what I may call thequantification of the gods, that is, to conceiving divinity under notions of number or quantity, a step which has led to profound deterioration of the religious sentiment.
