Some notes for a conceptual history of measurement are presented, to introduce the basic positions that have been maintained about the issue that can be considered as the general epistemological problem of measurement: what characterizes measurement with respect to generic evaluation? This characterization, in which three distinct positions are recognized correspondingly to what we call Metaphysical Period, Anti-Metaphysical Period, and Relativistic Period, allows us to introduce and shortly discuss some general issues on the current epistemological status of Measurement Science. The goal of this work is more to identify and characterize some current epistemological problems of measurement than to give them a solution.
Keywords:
foundations of measurement, measurement theory, measurement science, measurement and evaluation, measurement uncertainty
