What is Regularity?
Normal, regular bowel movements can be difficult to define, because what’s regular for someone else might not be regular for you. Some people go too frequently, some not enough. But Frequency isn’t the only attribute to consider when determining if you are regular. The shape and consistency are also important. The shape should be sausage-like. And the ideal consistency ranges from soft and smooth to soft with a few cracks in the surface.
One dictionary writes that it means “the state, quality, character or property of being regular”. What is regular? The same dictionary writes, among other things that it means “made according to rule” or “acting orderly”. It gives ten other synonymous meanings and advises the reader to consult “system” for other synonyms. Going to system, the dictionary writes that it means “orderly combination or connection of parts into a whole” as well as giving eight other synonymous meanings. Have you noticed it? Within a few sentences we have landed from head to heels into concepts like system, order, wholeness, fruitfulness (connection), etc. To measure all values for any physical quantity, we need a way (method, rule) to order all possible values of that quantity. We call this emerging order of values the scale of measurement. It is not linearity which is essential to measure in a standardised manner, but regularity or order. However, I have stressed in many contributions that order itself is n
