A state that is a collection of sufficient … A state that is a collection of sufficiently large number of other parts such that:</br>- it is the bearer of qualities that can exists only by the fact that it is a sum of parts</br>- the smallest partition dV of the state volume in which we are interested in, contains enough parts to be statistically consistent: n [#/m3] x dV [m3] >> 1y consistent: n [#/m3] x dV [m3] >> 1 +