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A Brief Introduction to Measurement Theory and to the Essays |
C. Wade Savage
University of Minnesota
Philip Ehrlich
Brown University
Until approximately three decades ago, measurement theory was widely assumed to be the avocation of a few physicists, mathematicians, and philosophers of science, and the obsession of a few social scientists who hoped to secure for their fields the authority enjoyed by mathematical physics and chemistry. The recognition of a legitimate, specialized field of inquiry called “measurement theory” is of even more recent origin.
Admittedly theories concerning the nature of quantity date from at least the ancient Greeks, as described in Aristotle’s writings on these subjects in the Categories and the Metaphysics ...
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