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| Measurements, philosophy: A) the problem of measuring is discussed in the context of interpretations of quantum mechanics. B) the comparison of D. Davidson's attribution of linguistic meanings to measurement is taken up in other theories._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Ludwig Wittgenstein on Measurements - Dictionary of Arguments
Hintikka I 77 Measuring/Wittgenstein/Hintikka: Suppose you use a pole to find out whether the bottom of a river is sandy or muddy. This pole cannot be used in the same way to find out how the pole itself is made. On the other hand, it is easily possible to use the pole to find out whether it can be used to reach the ground at all. >Circular reasoning. I 176 "...when I apply a scale to a spatial object, I apply all scale lines at the same time." I 216 ff Comparability/World/Picture/Measuring/Verification/Wittgenstein/Hintikka: One cannot compare a picture with reality if one cannot measure it against it. You have to be able to put the sentence onto reality. >Reality. I 218 Measuring/Wittgenstein: The scale must always be in the same room as the measured thing. Only the sentences of a physicalistic language can be compared with facts and therefore also represent them. - - - II 29 Measuring/Wittgenstein: Sentence: e.g. "apply the scale three times to G, and you will get the height of G". Then the existence of G and also that of the scale belongs to the sentence. The height of G, on the other hand, is not part of the sentence. II 184 Def Time/Wittgenstein: is what is measured with a clock. >Time. If we know several measurement methods that do not contradict each other, we do not require a specific method to explain these words. But test methods give different meanings to the expression "have the same color" . II 236 Measuring/Wittgenstein: "Greenwich's scale is actually one foot long" there is no point in saying that. It is a definition. Example: Originial Meter. II 238 Measuring/Scale/flexible/Wittgenstein: For example, we could also call all the values read at different temperatures the real length. To the objection that "I like it and I don't like it" which is not a case to which "contradiction" applies, corresponds the objection that a scale is useless unless it is rigid. However, in some cases elasticity may be desired. II 354 ...besides, Russell's equal signs can be eliminated, and in this case the equations cannot be written down at all. Difference: Measuring: e.g. numerical equality of classes or Calculating: e.g. equal number of roots of a 4th degree equation: one is a measurement, the other a calculation. >Calculus. Is there an experiment to determine if two classes have the same number? This may or may not be the case for classes that cannot be overlooked. II 355 It is a damaging prejudice to believe that we are dealing with an experiment when using strokes. II 333 Pattern/Meter/prototype metre/Scale/Measurement/Wittgenstein: the pattern does not belong to the application, but to the language - the existence of the metre measure does not guarantee that there is something that is one metre long. Setting the scale is a decision, not a discovery. II 367 Measuring/Wittgenstein: it is also when I am asked whether two pieces of wood are of equal length, and then I put them on top of each other and answer yes. You might ask if I know that nothing happened to them when they were measured. The answer is that talking about equality is no longer relevant if any method of establishing equality is rejected! II 368 If you claim the equality of lengths, it means that you say something about the method of investigation. >Method, >Comparisons. II 437 Root/Construction/Wittgenstein: For example, the diagonal is turned to the number line. Without the construction √2 is not the length. This length is not an approximation. It has nothing to do with measuring by a meter. - - - III 231 Prototype metre/Wittgenstein/Flor: precisely because it is a paradigm - a means of creating the language game, it is not something that is produced in the language game. >Language game. - - - VI 148 Measuring/Wittgenstein/Schulte: one is to describe the measurement method, another is to find the results. But what we call "measuring" is determined by a certain consistency of measurement results. VI 165 Scale/Measuring/Tractatus/Schulte: the image is linked to reality: it reaches to it. It is like a measure of reality. Only the outermost points of the scale lines touch the object. Thesis: a system of sentences is applied to reality like a yardstick. But I apply all scale lines at the same time._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
W II L. Wittgenstein Wittgenstein’s Lectures 1930-32, from the notes of John King and Desmond Lee, Oxford 1980 German Edition: Vorlesungen 1930-35 Frankfurt 1989 W III L. Wittgenstein The Blue and Brown Books (BB), Oxford 1958 German Edition: Das Blaue Buch - Eine Philosophische Betrachtung Frankfurt 1984 W IV L. Wittgenstein Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (TLP), 1922, C.K. Ogden (trans.), London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Originally published as “Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung”, in Annalen der Naturphilosophische, XIV (3/4), 1921. German Edition: Tractatus logico-philosophicus Frankfurt/M 1960 Hintikka I Jaakko Hintikka Merrill B. Hintikka Investigating Wittgenstein German Edition: Untersuchungen zu Wittgenstein Frankfurt 1996 Hintikka II Jaakko Hintikka Merrill B. Hintikka The Logic of Epistemology and the Epistemology of Logic Dordrecht 1989 |
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