Measurement
Its Concepts, Theories and Problems
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Karel Berka
Philosophy
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Rational and Nonrational Elements in the History of Science
It is the aim of my contribution to analyze the relevance of nonrational elements in the history of science, more exactly the dialectics of scientific and unscientific roots of modern science. As a prerequisit...
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The Ideal of Mathematization in B. Bolzano
In my contribution I would like to draw attention to the views on the ideal of mathematization held by B. Bolzano, a later follower of Leibnizian rationalism. This analysis will show the evolution of conceptio...
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Introduction
Measurement is a quite common procedure in the everyday practice of human-kind and each individual. Measurement and counting — operations directly connected with the material life of society — have developed i...
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Quantification
After having exposed the concepts of measurement, magnitude, and scale, there still remains the task of considering the content and extension of the concept of quantification. In the explication of this concep...
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Philosophical Problems of Measurement
The elucidation of basic notions, the investigation of empirical and mathematical components of measurement, the analysis of its formal characteristics, as well as the practical application of measuring proced...
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Measurement
The concept of measurement, as it is understood in the most diverse connections, often with different intentions, is undoubtedly a complex concept possessing an equivocal meaning. We have already pointed this ...
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Scales
The differentiation of metrical and non-metrical magnitudes on the empirico-mathematical level of the conceptualization of the object of measurement must necessarily appear in an explication of the result of m...
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Theory of Measurement
One can speak of a theory of measurement in various connections. This situation is caused not only by our peculiar ways of interpreting the concept of measurement (we might interpret it in a wider or a narrowe...
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Methodological Problems of Measurement
There is a whole range of general and specific problems of a methodological character that are connected with measurement. The selection of these problems undoubtedly depends on the level of generality and the...
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Scales of Measurement
This paper on the methodological problems of measurement in intended to clarify the function of scales in the theory of measurement and to consider the extent to which theoretical results so far achieved provi...
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Magnitudes
The distinction between the measured object and the object of measurement is only the first step toward an appropriate specification of what is actually the subject matter of measurement. This problem can be i...
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Theory of Scales
A theory of scales can be understood either as a specific variant of the theory of extraphysical measurement, oriented especially to the problems of scaling and scaling procedures, or as a relatively independe...
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Was there an Eleatic Background to Pre-Euclidean Mathematics?
The basic ideas of a recent reconstruction concerned with the origin of deductive mathematics in the 6th and 5th centuries (cp. [9]–[12]) can be summarized briefly as follows: In its very beginning, there exis...
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Axiomatization in Expected Utility Theory
The paper is concerned with a critical evaluation of formal, semantical, methodological, empirical and philosophical aspect of the axiomatized expected utility theory, developed by J.v. Neumann — O. Morgenster...
