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MEASURES OF CONSTRUCTIONS
- That habitude of things whereby they may be said to have parts distinct and ca∣pable of division, or the general disposition of things either to Action or Passion. ,
- AMBIGUOUS MEASURE , definite or indefinite measures of such
- The nature of things in themselves; as to
- Their degrees of being; whether ‖ present, or future and in possibility.
- ACTUALNESS , Existence, extant.
- POTENTIALNESS , Reversion, may▪ can.
- Their Extension; being ‖ circumscribed by bounds, or not so circumscribed,
- FINITENESS , definite determined, limited, bounded, Term, Confine, Stint, conclu∣ded.
- INFINITENESS , endless, indefinite, unbounded, immense, indeterminate, unli∣mited, unmeasurable, inexhaustible.
- Their naked being, or not being.
- POSITIVENESS , Thesis.
- PRIVATIVENESS , Privation, bereave , deprive, depose, put out, or forth, take away, strip, devest, disseise, dispossess, disfurnish.
- Their being▪ or not being what they are pretended to be.
- GENUINENESS , right, arrant, rank, very, native, legitimate, true, currant.
- S•VRIOVSNESS, mongrel, bastard, false, illegitimate, improper, adulterine, base, misbegot, sophisticated.
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| Study or name | Definite Measures | Indefinite Measure |
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| Calculus | Change | |
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| Vector | direction | |
| Scalar | Quantity |
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