Issues in the Theory of Uniqueness in Measurement

The attempt to put measurement on a firm mathematical foundation has led to a substantial mathematical theory sometimes referred to as the representational theory of measurement. This paper presents an introduction to this theory, with an emphasis on those topics relating to the uniqueness of scales of measurement and with an attempt also to emphasize topics relevant to issues in graph theory or the theory of order relations.

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