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The Conventionality of Real-Valued Quantities. Marissa Bennett (Toronto)
@ Columbia [ZOOM]
The Conventionality of Real-Valued Quantities. Marissa Bennett (Toronto)
@ Columbia [ZOOM]
Mar 23 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
The representational theory of measurement provides a collection of results that specify the conditions under which an attribute admits of numerical representation. The original architects of the theory interpreted the formalism operationally and explicitly acknowledged that some aspects of their representations are conventional. There have been a number of recent efforts to reinterpret the formalism to arrive at a more metaphysically robust account of physical quantities. In this paper we argue that the conventional elements[...]
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