Philosophy Lexicon of Arguments
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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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Field, Hartry   Books on Amazon	Measurements	II 69 Measuring / analogy / intentionality / belief / Brentano / Field: the idea is that the explanation is based not on relations like "x has mass in kg r" between physical objects and non-physical numbers, but in some "intrinsic relations" between physical objects themselves. e.g. "The mass of x is the sum of the masses of y and z". - Then Brentano’s problem has been solved - but we have to make strong assumptions about the internal structure of mind states. - Differently: Dennett: Here numbers can not be attributed to physical objects but to monadic properties - the property to have a certain mass. _____________ 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.	Fie I H. Field Realism, Mathematics and Modality Oxford New York 1989 Fie II H. Field Truth and the Absence of Fact Oxford New York 2001 Fie III H. Field Science without numbers Princeton New Jersey 1980

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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2017-08-16