Savage, C. Wade
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서명/저자사항 | Philosophical and Foundational Issues in Measurement Theory [electronic resource]./ C. Wade Savage, Philip Ehrlich. |
개인저자 | Savage, C. Wade, Ehrlich, Philip, |
발행사항 | Hoboken: Taylor and Francis, 2013. |
형태사항 | 1 online resource (241 pages). |
기타형태 저록 | Print version: Savage, C. Wade. Philosophical and Foundational Issues in Measurement Theory. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013 9780805807264 |
ISBN | 9781134758661 (electronic bk.) 1134758669 (electronic bk.) |
내용주기 | Cover; PHILOSOPHICAL AND FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES IN MEASUREMENT THEORY; Copyright; Contents; About the Contributors; 1 A Brief Introduction to Measurement Theory and to the Essays; 2 Intrinsic Archimedeanness and the Continuum; 3 Qualitative Axioms for Random-Variable Representation of Extensive Quantities; 4 On the EmpiricaI Status of Measurement Axioms: The Case of Subjective Probability; 5 Measuring Errors of Measurement; 6 The Structuralist View of Measurement: An Extension of Received Measurement Theories; 7 Synthetic Physics and Nominalist Realism. 8 Quantitative Nonnumerical Relations in Science: Eudoxus, Newton, and Maxwell9 Conventionalism in Measurement Theory; 10 Are There Objective Grounds for Measurement Procedures?; 11 Measurement from Empiricist and Realist Points of View; Author Index; Subject Index. |
요약 | Measurement theory has only recently become recognized as a legitimate, specialized field of inquiry. This text covers a wide range of issues of central concern to contemporary measurement theorists, and a broad range of philosophical perspectives are represented. The formalist, representationalist approach defines measurement as the assignment of numbers to entities and events to represent their properties and relations. It also states that measurement theory is supposed to analyze the concept of a scale of measurement, describe various types of scales and their uses, and formulate the condit. |
일반주제명 | Physical measurements. SCIENCE --Energy. SCIENCE --Mechanics --General. SCIENCE --Physics --General. Physical measurements. |
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