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Dr. Brendan Patrick Mahony's avatar

This is a topic not unknown to traditional science. I would suggest some reading.

@book{Ellis:1966a,

author = {Ellis, B.},

publisher = {Cambridge University Press},

title = {Basic Concepts in Measurement},

year = {1966}}

@book{Bridgman:1931a,

author = {Bridgman, P. W.},

edition = {Revised},

publisher = {Yale University Press},

title = {Dimensional Analysis},

year = {1931}}

A silly answer is everything you can talk or write about can be quantified, demonstration by modern computer file systems. Every file is effectively represented as a natural number.

When the algebraic properties of numbers are included, the question becomes much more debatable. For example, the hardness of materials. The Mohs scale exists, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohs_scale, but the numbers assigned are merely used to represent a "scratchability" relationship, so they are not scalar as a naive interpretation would suggest.

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