1982, ISBN: 9789027714169

Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1982. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Good/None. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Blue cloth boards with embossed border… Meer...

Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1982. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Good/None. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Blue cloth boards with embossed border and publisher's logo on front and gilt titling on spine. Adhesive residue on spine heel, and scars to both pastedowns where book plate and envelope removed. Bottom page edge is stamped with Science Library Columbia University. Location and dewey number erased from copyright page, in two spots; Interior is otherwise unmarked. Binding is sound. 8vo. Ships from US. BOOK INFO: Contents include: Measurement; Magnitudes; Scales; Quantification; Theory of measurement; Theory of scales; Methodological problems of measurement; Philosophical problems of measurement. Also includes editorial preface, translator's remarks, preface, introduction, notes, bibliography, index of personal names and index of subjects. 'From a purely empirical point of view, measurement is reduced only to the use of different scaling and measureing techniques. A purely mathematical doctrine of measurement, which prevails today, is reduced to the construction of various scales of measurement, defined merely by purely formally invariant transformations under which their form is unchanged, or, alternatively, to the derivation of the representation and uniqueness theorems from axiomatically defined relational structures. A common denominator of both these antagonistic doctrines is a very broad explication of the concept of measurement, encompassing a mere numbering, as well as an uncritical application of measuring procedures to the widest possible extent. Such explication disregards the general, objectively existing conditions of measurability, as well as the specific nature of the social sciences with respect to the natural sciences, especially physics.' (-from the preface by the author). Physical measurements; physics; scientific philosophy; scale, distance, scale types, transformation criteria, D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1982, 2.5<

1983, ISBN: 9789027714169

Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1983. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/fair. First edition, 1983. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 250 pp., Near Fine copy in Fair dust jacke… Meer...

Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1983. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/fair. First edition, 1983. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 250 pp., Near Fine copy in Fair dust jacket, owner's signature on the front flyleaf, age-toning to some pages, some scotch-taping to the dust jacket, soiling and discoloration to the dust jacket, significant wear to the dust jacket including creasing, tearing, and loss. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector. Rare book., D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1983, 3<