Properly Extensive Quantities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10705152 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zee R Perry (0000-0002-8010-7726, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 833-844 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8248 • E-ISSN: 1539-767X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1086/683323 |
| OpenAlex | W2278118491 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 3 |
This article introduces and motivates the notion of a “properly extensive” quantity by means of a puzzle about the reliability of certain canonical length measurements. An account of these measurements’ success, I argue, requires a modally robust connection between quantitative structure and mereology that is not mediated by the dynamics and is stronger than the constraints imposed by “mere additivity.” I outline what it means to say that length is not just extensive but properly so and then briefly sketch an application of proper extensiveness to the project of providing a reductive ground for metric quantitative structure
Algorithm · Connection (principal bundle) · Epistemology · Mereology · Metric (unit) · Physics · Sketch · Statistical physics · Computer Science · History and Theory of Mathematics · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Theoretical Computer Science
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Against Magnitude Realism
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The Nomic Likelihood Account of Laws
Taking values seriously
Against Quantitative Primitivism
Is Quantitative Measurement in the Human Sciences Doomed? On the Quantity Objection
On Absolute Units
| Citations per year | 1.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |