Category of quantity in philosophy and linguistics

In the modern world, philosophy is an important area of scientific knowledge that has a significant impact on various aspects of human life. One of the key aspects of philosophy is the study of the categories of being, which help to understand the main aspects of the existence of the world. In this context, the category of quantity, which occupies an important place in the philosophy of Aristotle, is of particular interest. This article discusses the category of quantity in the context of Aristotle's philosophy and the category of quantitativeness in the concept of the St. Petersburg school of functional grammar. Quantity is considered as one of the main linguistic categories, which is important for the organization of linguistic information and the expression of thoughts: "quantification is considered by us, on the one hand, as a semantic category representing a linguistic interpretation of the mental category of quantity, and on the other - as a functional semantic field based on this semantic category - a grouping of multi-level means of a given language interacting on the basis of quantitative functions