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In Ontology, quality determines beings. The quality-quantity bipolarity reveals that a conceptual logical comprehension that can include negation must be a dialectical logic. Quality is a precise characteristic of something (or a subject predicate) capable of augmentation or diminution while remaining identical through differences or quantitative changes. Thus, quality and in opposition quantity are inextricably linked, giving definition to each other, so constituting a logical bipolarity. The theory is that a magnitude G is never separated from secondary qualities α and β, and therefore, a measure depends on a concrete quality Gα or Gβ, that is to say on one pole of a logical bi-pole. However, the particular number, the unit, that expresses the result of a measure is the quality G alone. Examples drawn from physical and chemical experiments illustrate these ideas and elaborate the structure of the concept of opposition between the secondary qualities α and β of a magnitude G.
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A system with concepts is a semiotic system when representations and functions form pairs. The function is determined by semantic properties (significance) within their physical restrictions (signifier). (Nescolarde-Selva and Usó-Doménech, 2013).
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Usó-Doménech, J.L., Nescolarde-Selva, J.A. & Gash, H. Dialectical Hegelian Logic and Physical Quantity and Quality. Found Sci 27, 555–572 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-021-09790-5
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