By Schubert Ogden
Hartshorne argues that "the uniquely excellent way in which each category applies to deity and the less excellent ways in which it applies to the non-divine have quantitative and qualitative aspects. The non-divine illustrates the category in some relationships to others \ [or: in relationships to some others?\], the divine illustrates it in all such relationships \ [or: in relationships to all others?\]. Also, the non-divine illustrates the category in a qualitatively surpassable way, the divine in a way either unsurpassable or, in some categories, surpassable only by \ [itself\] . . . . The contrast between 'all' and 'some' might be termed the extensional import of eminence. There is also the intensional import" ("Love and Dual Transcendence": 98). Wiki Markup
Granted that it is indeed possible to distinguish such aspects, or, specifically, a "qualitative" from a "quantitative" aspect, what is the nature of this distinction? One way of thinking about it, I submit, is that the so-called qualitative aspect is itself quantitative, albeit at another level -- adverbally quantitative, if you will, rather than adjectivally.
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