Measure development and the hermeneutic task.
I examine the dynamics of measure development using two case studies: temperature, and health-related quality of life. I argue, following Bas van Fraassen and Leah McClimans that in each case these dynamics have a hermeneutic structure. Measure development is plagued by epistemic circularity, as is...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 198; no. 3; pp. 2375 - 2391 |
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