The Three Faces of Measure
Abstract
In subchapter 3.5, while distinguishing the pure idealizational type of a scientific law (exemplified by Newton’s second law of dynamics) from the type of scientific law exemplified by the law of value and the law of surplus-value, I used the category of the formal ground as well as the category of the real ground. In subchapter 5.4, when analyzing the development of knowledge from the inherent type of scientific law to the inherent idealizational type, I characterized this development as a move from the category of immanent measure to that of the manifestation of the immanent measure. The task of this chapter is to show the interdependence of these categories and to relate them with the category of apparent (external) measure.
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Immanent Measure Phenomenal Property External Measure Centripetal Force Formal GroundPreview
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- 2.Hegel’s Wissenschaft der Logik (1923) diverges in some places from the (1969) translation by A. V. Miller. In the quotations I, therefore, draw upon both of them.Google Scholar
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- 5.This, it seems, is implied by his view that only those properties are essential “which admit neither intensification nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to all bodies within the reach of our experiments” (1946, 398).Google Scholar
- 7.Hegel here draws upon the chemistry of his time; on this see, e.g., (Snelders 1993).Google Scholar
- 8.Ph. Mongin claims this in (1989).Google Scholar
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- 10.Marx in (1983, 43) strictly distinguishes between the quantity (Grösse) and quality (substance) of the magnitude of value. Therefore, in my view, the standard English translation of the German “Werthgrösse” as “magnitude of value,” e.g., in (Marx 1990, 88; 1967, Vol. 1, 102; Marx and Engels 1975ff., Vol. 35, 111) is not correct.Google Scholar
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