This difference appears arithmetically as merely quantitative, a difference of the root or the power, of whatever degree they might be; however, if the expression does not go further than just the quantitative sphere as such (for example, a or a a a a or for the law of gravity, it then yields the ratios a, a, at, which say nothing whatsoever; as against their merely quantitative determination, the sides would have to be held apart by the qualitative meaning differentiating them, as the magnitude being thereby spoken of as a quality, as a function of the magnitude of another quality.