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Quantity Surveying

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Quantity Surveying at University of Wales Trinity Saint David

Language: English Studies in English
University website: www.uwtsd.ac.uk/
Higher National Diploma (HND)

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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
Quantity has a quality all its own.
Presumably Thomas A. Callaghan Jr., defense consultant and director of Allied Interdependence program:
Quantity
It is the same case with all those pretended syllogistical reasonings, which may be found in every other branch of learning, except the sciences of quantity and number; and these may safely, I think, be pronounced the only proper objects of knowledge and demonstration.
David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section 12, Part 3
Quantity
Monotony of evil: never anything new, everything about it is equivalent. ... It is because of this monotony that quantity plays so great a part. A host of women (Don Juan) or of men (Célimène), etc.
Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace (1972), p. 62
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