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c534fn12921	Brandon Fogel	Epistemology of a Theory of Everything	2009		.txt	text/plain	295	8	35	They both argue that, in a fully-developed theory, the behavior of measuring devices should not be taken as given but rather derived from first principles; i.e., as composite objects able to determine the properties of more basic entities, rigid rulers and regular clocks should arise as particular solutions of the fundamental equations. I argue that this requirement, though important for explaining how theories can make claims about the world that are capable of test through observation, leaves the task half-finished.	cache/c534fn12921.txt	txt/c534fn12921.txt