| This question <8|3> overall <759|3> Bresid: <725|87>. (graded A– weight 50%) |
| Question 29: Can you think of an example in which the quantity of something affects its quality, for instance some physical matter two litres of which are qualitatively different from one litre of it? |
| [2] Bresid: Substance Abuse. The use of general anesthetic depends both on the quality of the anesthetic and the quantity given to a patient. |
| If during a surgery an anesthesiologist were to give too much Isoflurane, an agent used for both general anesthetics and euthanasia, to a patient, that patient could die. The quantity of Isoflurane defines it as an anesthetic or a euthanasia agent. |
| To compare it with Hegel's example of milk we would look at general anesthetics as a commodity. If a patient pays for a general anesthetic but gets the wrong quantity that general anesthetic becomes a euthanasia agent. The quality of the general anesthetic is surely compromised depending on the quantity of the substance. |
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