Epistemological Foundations of Measurement

Luca Mari

Abstract

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? <BR />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. <BR />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

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TC7 - Measurement Science

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