Dimensionally Invariant Numerical Laws Correspond to Meaningful Qualitative Relations
- 1 March 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Philosophy of Science
- Vol. 45 (1), 1-16
- https://doi.org/10.1086/288776
Abstract
In formal theories of measurement meaningfulness is usually formulated in terms of numerical statements that are invariant under admissible transformations of the numerical representation. This is ...Keywords
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