The Relationship Between Speech, Time, and Movement

Aristotelians say that they are relative quantities so far as they seem to be quantities. Magnitude and numbers would be of a different type of quantity. Why then should sizes also be quantities? Probably because they approximate quantities, even though we do not measure them with quantity in itself. We call large what numerically participates in much, and small what participates in little. In either case, there is nothing in common between the numbers of which we speak, and those which exist in things which participate therein.