| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 231 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. A brief introduction to measurement theory and to the essays / C. Wade Savage and Philip Ehrlich -- 2. Intrinsic Archimedeanness and the continuum / R. Duncan Luca and Louis Narens -- 3. Qualitative axioms for random-variable representation of extensive quantities / Patrick Suppes and Mario Zanotti -- 4. On the empirical status of measurement axioms : the case of subjective probability / Ernest W. Adams -- 5. Measuring errors of measurement / Henry E. Kyburg, Jr. -- 6. The structuralist view of measurement : an extension of received measurement theories / Wolfgang Balzer -- 7. Synthetic physics and nominalist realism / John P. Burgess -- 8. Quantitative nonnumerical relations in science : Eudoxus, Newton, and Maxwell / Arnold Koslow -- 9. Conventionalism in measurement theory / Brian Ellis -- 10. Are there objective grounds for measurement procedures? / Karel Berka -- 11. Measurement from empiricist and realist points of view / Zoltan Domotor |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Physical measurements.
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Physical measurements.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ehrlich, Philip.
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Savage, C. Wade.
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| ISBN |
0203772253 |
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1134758669 |
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1134758731 |
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1134758804 |
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113897840X |
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1299697100 |
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9780203772256 |
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9781134758739 |
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9781134758807 |
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9781138978409 |
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9781299697102 |
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9781134758661 |
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