A structural interpretation of measurement and some related epistemological issues

Luca Mari; Luca Paolo Mari; Paolo Carbone; Alessandro Giordani; Alessandro Giordani; Dario Petri

doi:10.1016/j.shpsa.2017.08.001

A structural interpretation of measurement and some related epistemological issues

Luca Mari, Luca Paolo Mari, Paolo Carbone, Alessandro Giordani, Alessandro Giordani, Dario Petri

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Abstract

Measurement is widely applied because its results are assumed to be more reliable than opinions and guesses, but this reliability is sometimes justified in a stereotyped way. After a critical analysis of such stereotypes, a structural characterization of measurement is proposed, as partly empirical and partly theoretical process, by showing that it is in fact the structure of the process that guarantees the reliability of its results. On this basis the role and the structure of background knowledge in measurement and the justification of the conditions of object-relatedness ("objectivity") and subject-independence ("intersubjectivity") of measurement are specifically discussed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	46-56
Number of pages	11
Journal	Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Volume	65-66
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2017.08.001
Publication status	Published - 2017

Keywords

Measurement
Models in measurement
Objectivity and intersubjectivity in measurement
Stereotypes of measurement

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