REALISTS' VS. INSTRUMENTALISTS' UNDERSTANDING OF MEASUREMENT

• Abstract:

  The main idea of this paper is to analyse the consequences of the philosophical stance – and in particular of the understanding of truth underlying that stance – for the every-day language of measurement science.
• Keywords:

  measurement science, philosophy of science, realism and instrumentalism
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  PWC-2003-TC7-016.pdf
• DOI:

  _unreg_wc-2003.TC7-016

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