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Theory and Measurement (Paperback)
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Theory and Measurement (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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Measurement is fundamental to all the sciences, the behavioural and
social as well as the physical and in the latter its results
provide our paradigms of 'objective fact'. But the basis and
justification of measurement is not well understood and is often
simply taken for granted. Henry Kyburg Jr proposes here an
original, carefully worked out theory of the foundations of
measurement, to show how quantities can be defined, why certain
mathematical structures are appropriate to them and what meaning
attaches to the results generated. Crucial to his approach is the
notion of error - it can not be eliminated entirely from its
introduction and control, her argues, arises the very possibility
of measurement. Professor Kyburg's approach emphasises the
empirical process of making measurements. In developing it he
discusses vital questions concerning the general connection between
a scientific theory and the results which support it (or fail to).
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