On the possible scientific laws

DOI10.1016/0165-4896(90)90075-IzbMath0731.92032OpenAlexW2040101168MaRDI QIDQ809027

Suh-Ryung Kim

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Mathematical Social Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-4896(90)90075-i

zbMATH Keywords

functional equationscale invarianceordinal scalesscientific lawsadmissible transformationsdimensional parametersindependent ratio scaleslog-interval scaleprinciple of the theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measurement theory in the social and behavioral sciences (91C05) Psychophysics and psychophysiology; perception (91E30)

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