Philosophical and foundational issues in measurement theory / edited by C. Wade Savage, Philip Ehrlich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Savage, C. Wade.

Ehrlich, Philip.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physical measurements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Hillsdale, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1992.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-134-75873-1

1-138-97840-X

1-134-75866-9

0-203-77225-3

9780203772256

OCLC:

852757709