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Measuring and Counting: More Boundaries

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Perception and Discovery

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In an ideal science every concept would have a sharp edge—a boundary. I cannot confidently imagine what such an ideal science would be like, or even whether the notion itself is wholly unobjectionable. But undeniably, complete precision in locating the boundaries of its central concepts is a goal of modern science, whether or not that goal is logically attainable.

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    Presumably, Hanson means to rule out cases of non-additive volumetric fluid mixing, e.g. water and ethanol, since such combinations involve chemical bonding and are therefore not simple combinations. –MDL.

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Lund, M.D. (2018). Measuring and Counting: More Boundaries. In: Lund, M.D. (eds) Perception and Discovery. Synthese Library, vol 389. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69745-1_3

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