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A sojourn at the Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science greatly facilitated the writing of this paper. The Center grant which made this possible is gratefully acknowledged.

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Demopoulos, W. Boolean representations of physical magnitudes and locality. Synthese 42, 101–119 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00413707

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Keywords

  • Physical Magnitude
  • Boolean Representation