ABSTRACT
If choices are made by individuals among individuals and things in the world then the quantitative view is not going to be of any use. But incommensurable choice is right at home here; and we can go farther in thinking about what it entails by taking up the distinction between qualitative and quantitative introduced early in the previous chapter. We will see that the distinction does not work by pointing the quantitative toward the quantitative view, and the qualitative toward incommensurable choice. Rather, quantitative and qualitative must be understood in relation to each other; and whereas incommensurable choice can do this easily, the quantitative view cannot. That is to say, because the quantitative view cannot conceive of quality and qualitative difference, it has a hopelessly impoverished understanding even of quantity.
