Adaptation and Quantification

The primary distinction between Adaptation-To and Adaptation-Of is that in the former, an Organism modifies itself, while in the latter, it modifies its Environment.  Now, one of the simplest ways of Adapting-To an Environment is exemplified by the chameleon, which takes on the coloring of its circumstances.  Thus, Mind conforming to an Object can be conceived as an Ecological process that typically gets reduced to an Epistemological relation.  Furthermore, via the Kantian Revolution, a relation that is typically taken to be Epistemological, the conforming an Object to Mind, can correspondingly be recognized as an Ecological process--Adaptation-Of.  That relation is Quantification, plainly the pivotal intellectual factor in the rapid post-Copernican Technical development of the species. Accordingly, the most significant innovations of Descartes and Leibniz are not the Meditations or the Monadology, but the inventions of Analytic Geometry, Calculus, and Binary Universal Language.  At the same time, conspicuously absent in this respect is the Philosopher among them who most explicitly promotes Technical Reason--Spinoza, who offers no Mathematical innovation.  Regardless, the introduction of the concept of Adaptation into Epistemology helps illustrate the broader significance of the latter, while at the same pinpointing the source of the Adaptation-Of that is unique to the Human species, and is expressed in its rapid Evolutionary development of the past several centuries--Quantification.