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work_2q2ywzf3i5eproowbkqcu4kxv4	Conrad Heilmann	A New Interpretation of the Representational Theory of Measurement	2015	13	.pdf	application/pdf	5052	366	51	In this paper, I provide a new interpretation of the Representational Theory of Measurement that sidesteps these debates. Representational Theory of Measurement as a library of theorems that investigate the The Representational Theory of Measurement (RTM) is one of the main accounts of measurement (Swistak, 1990; Boumans, 2008; Cartwright and Chang, 2008). measurement, but propose the following two-step interpretation: firstly, RTM should be Secondly, from a mathematical point of view, the representation and uniqueness theorems in RTM simply characterise mappings between two kinds of structures, with one The new interpretation allows us to apply RTM theorems to any concept that we might preferences, recent philosophical literature in rational choice theory has used RTM theorems without presupposing such close empirical links (see, for instance, Bradley (2009a), of proponents of RTM as a full-fledged theory of measurement, the new interpretation In this paper, I have proposed to interpret the Representational Theory of Measurement in	./cache/work_2q2ywzf3i5eproowbkqcu4kxv4.pdf	./txt/work_2q2ywzf3i5eproowbkqcu4kxv4.txt