What do numbers measure? A new approach to fundamental measurement

DOI10.1016/0165-4896(92)90063-BzbMath0777.92025OpenAlexW1496839830MaRDI QIDQ1196209

Reinhard Niederée

Publication date: 16 December 1992

Published in: Mathematical Social Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-4896(92)90063-b

zbMATH Keywords

real numbersextensive measurementrepresentational theory of measurementArchimedean axiomsconstructibility of scalesfundamental measurementtype approach

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model theory (03C99) Measurement theory in the social and behavioral sciences (91C05) General applied mathematics (00A69)

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