From: Jurriaan Bendien (adsl675281@TISCALI.NL)
Date: Wed Apr 11 2007 - 15:43:16 EDT
In reply to Prof. Perelman, there could be a series of different measures we could construct to indicate ASNLT, all with an applied validity. In empiricist theory, a concept is only as good as our ability to measure the observables to which it refers. But in realist theory, a concept can refer to something real, but we might measure that in many different ways, and our measurements might not be perfect - in other words, the real thing to which the concept refers does not depend for its reality on measurement, and the validity of the concept does not depend on its measurability. It is only that in attempting to devise measures for a concept, we are forced to get very exact about what we mean by the concept, and what the concept entails. Jurriaan
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