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 1 6|  continuous. Moreover, some quantities are such that each part
 2 6| part.~Instances of discrete quantities are number and speech; of
 3 6|     belong to this class of quantities. Time, past, present, and
 4 6|     have a common boundary.~Quantities consist either of parts
 5 6|   have position. Thus, some quantities consist of parts which have
 6 6|   in mind some one of these quantities, properly so called, that
 7 6|   in their intrinsic nature quantities; nothing else can claim
 8 6|  only in a secondary sense.~Quantities have no contraries. In the
 9 6|     In the case of definite quantities this is obvious; thus, there
10 6|     surface, or of any such quantities. A man might, indeed, argue
11 6|   it. Each of the aforesaid quantities is said to be equal or unequal.