Theory and measurement

著者

• Kyburg, Henry Ely

書誌事項

Theory and measurement

Henry E. Kyburg, Jr

（Cambridge studies in philosophy / general editor, Ernest Sosa）

Cambridge University Press, 1984

• : pbk

注記

Bibliography: p. 261-268

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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).

目次

• Preface
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Machinery
• 3. Relative strength
• 4. Measurement of length
• 5. Direct measurement
• 6. Indirect measurement
• 7. Systematic measurement
• 8. Reduction of dimensions and fundamental units
• 9. Error: random and non-random
• 10. Interpersonal agreement
• 11. Theory and measurement
• Bibliography
• List of main notation
• Index.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA03714619
• ISBN:
  • 0521248787
  • 9780521108584
• LCCN: 82017905
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Cambridge ; New York
• ページ数/冊数: viii, 273 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : QC39
  • DC19 : 530.1/6
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Physical measurements
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA00372337