Psychological Measurement and Methodological Realism.
Within the context of psychological measurement, realist commitments pervade methodology. Further, there are instances where particular scientific practices and decisions are explicable most plausibly against a background assumption of epistemic realism. That psychometrics is a realist enterprise pr...
| Publicado en: | Erkenntnis Vol. 78; no. 4; pp. 739 - 762 |
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