The Principles of Mathematics (1903)

Chapter XXI. Numbers as Expressing Magnitudes: Measurement
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Chapter XXI. Numbers as Expressing Magnitudes: Measurement

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  1. § 164. Definition of measurement
  2. § 165. Possible grounds for holding all magnitudes to be measurable
  3. § 166. Intrinsic measurability
  4. § 167. Of divisibilities
  5. § 168. And of distances
  6. § 169. Measure of distance and measure of stretch
  7. § 170. Distance-theories and stretch-theories of geometry
  8. § 171. Extensive and intensive magnitudes
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