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Empiricism and the Myth of Fundamental Measurement. Synthese 116, 51–73 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005016725551
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Keywords
- Measurement Structure
- Numerical Representation
- Quantitative Theory
- Fundamental Measurement
- Qualitative Interpretation