E-LOGOS 2010, 17(1):1-19 | DOI: 10.18267/j.e-logos.274

About a logic of measurability

Arto Mutanen
Senior Researcher at Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland.

The notion of measurability is of central importance in empirical sciences. However, the general logic of measurability is not clear enough. In the present paper we will consider a logic of measurability. The intention is to get a notion of measurability which would have some general properties that the notion of measurability should have. The general strategy is to interconnect the logic of measurability to more general logic of experimental sciences. This gives us a logic of measurability which have several general properties that the notion of measurability is assumed to have. This will show that the strategy of the paper is of more general philosophical importance.

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