Functions, Function Concepts, and Scales

The Monist 87 (1):96-114 (2004)
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Properties like mass and temperature can be ordered on metrical scales. A property like hardness can perhaps only be ordered on an ordinal scale. Geometrical shapes seem to admit ordinal scales only in relation to specifically chosen families of shapes. The main claims of this paper are

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10.5840/monist20048718

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