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Scales and meaningfulness of quantitative laws
Synthese 55 (3):287 - 325 (1983)
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A general theory of ratio scalability with remarks about the measurement-theoretic concept of meaningfulness.Louis Narens - 1981 - Theory and Decision 13 (1):1-70.
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The untenability of Luce's principle.William W. Rozeboom - 1962 - Psychological Review 69 (6):542-547.
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