TY - JOUR
T1 - A structural interpretation of measurement and some related epistemological issues
AU - Mari, Luca Paolo
AU - Carbone, Paolo
AU - Giordani, Alessandro
AU - Petri, Dario
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Measurement
KW - Models in measurement
KW - Objectivity and intersubjectivity in measurement
KW - Stereotypes of measurement
KW - Measurement
KW - Models in measurement
KW - Objectivity and intersubjectivity in measurement
KW - Stereotypes of measurement
UR - https://publicatt.unicatt.it/handle/10807/105711
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U2 - 10.1016/j.shpsa.2017.08.001
DO - 10.1016/j.shpsa.2017.08.001
M3 - Article
SN - 0039-3681
VL - 65-66
SP - 46
EP - 56
JO - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
JF - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
IS - N/A
ER -