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Measurement from Empiricist and Realist Points of View |
Zoltan Domotor
University of Pennsylvania
The term “measurement” conjures up many meanings. It suggests ways of assigning numbers to extents of quantities, types of interaction between physical systems and sensors, modes of detection, coding, transfer and storage of information, and much more.
In this chapter, I shall concentrate on certain obstructions to empiricist conceptions of measurement and on some realist ways of overcoming them. Furthermore, I will propose a framework for reasoning about measurement theories. The need for such a framework is prompted by the ever-increasing proliferation of representation results in axiomatic measurement theory and the desire for unification. ...
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