Money is the abstraction of the value of physical goods. The abstraction increases the fungibility of the valuing. The act of placing the worth of goods into a preference ordering all by itself imposes a fungibility onto the goods so that the imposition of an ordering is fundamental to fungibility.
Ordering puts things into the quantitative dimension and out of the qualitative dimension. So the question is what does judgment look like that doesn't involve ordering?
Things could be categorized without being fungible. When we say judgment could categorize we are saying we are placing things in discontinuous proximity to each other. To respect that discontinuity is to emphasize the qualitative character of the judgment over the quantitative.
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