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The need for quantitative measurement represents a unifying bond that links all the physical, biological, and social sciences. Measurements of such disparate phenomena as subatomic masses, uncertainty, information, and human values share common features whose explication is central to the achievement of foundational work in any particular mathematical science as well as for the development of a coherent philosophy of science. This book presents a theory of measurement, one that is "abstract" in that it is concerned with highly general axiomatizations of empirical and qualitative settings and how these can be represented quantitatively. It was inspired by, and represents a generalization and extension of, the last major research work in this field, <i>Foundations of Measurement Vol. I</i>, by Krantz, Luce, Suppes, and Tversky published in 1971. <p><i>Abstract Measurement Theory</i> presents an overview of the subject with a high degree of generality; it explores several new directions of development; and it introduces a number of significant recent results. One of its major new directions is the extension of measurement to non-Archimedean situations through the use of nonstandard an

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Author

Louis Narens

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

1985

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585349862

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Mathematics, Physics