Scales and meaningfulness of quantitative laws
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Publication:1055717
DOI10.1007/BF00485824zbMath0521.92027OpenAlexW2061190106WikidataQ59486122 ScholiaQ59486122MaRDI QIDQ1055717
Jean-Claude Falmagne, Louis Narens
Publication date: 1983
Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00485824
scalesmeaningfulnessmonotonicity propertyinvariance propertychange of scalesdimensionalnumerical laworder-meaningfulpsychoacoustic experimentquantitative laws
Mathematics for nonmathematicians (engineering, social sciences, etc.) (00A06) Ordered groups (06F15) Psychophysics and psychophysiology; perception (91E30)
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