| This question <9|6> overall <19|21> Everclear: <324-8|43>. |
| Question 27: Can you think of an example in which the quantity of something affects its quality, for instance a physical matter in which two litres of it are qualitatively different than one liter of it? |
| [20] Everclear: quantity affecting quality I can think of a couple of examples of a physical matter in which quantity affects its quality. |
| My first example is nitro glycerin. Nitro glycerin in small amounts is used as a medication for heart patients. But in larger amounts it is used as a very powerful explosive. So in small quantities it is used for its health property but in larger amounts it is used for its destructive quality. |
| Another example would be cocaine. Cocaine in amounts of 1 to 5 milligrams is used as a local anesthetic. But people have found that in doses of 10 to 25 milligrams or maybe even more will give you a very intense and time consuming high. In small quantities cocaine can be a very useful pain killer. And in largerer quantities people have found it to be a rush. And of course the latter is illegal. |
| Hans: Submission [6] already had answered the same Question, and it was also discussed in class. Therefore one wonders if you had something new to say. I am not convinced. Does the different effect of cocaine come from qualitative differences in the material or from human reaction to it? These are really tangential questions to the text, and we should not beat them to death. |
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