It is superb because it takes those of us interested in philosophy and science directly to core issues of our beliefs. Before we begin our effort to distinguish modes of measurement, perhaps we should talk a bit about what measurement is . From an anthropocentric perspective, measurement is what humans do to understand perceived reality. From a Western cultural scientific perspective, measurement is what experimenters do to discover reality's presumed underlying rules, laws and principles. Measurement discloses that which recurs, and that which recurs is presumed reliable evidence of underlying rules, laws and principles.
Classical scientists insist only classical measurement is unambiguous .
Therefore they further insist all measurement is classical . We shall see a source of their concern about ambiguity arises from their adopted ontology and its assumptions. Measurement then depends greatly on assumptions about what is measured and what measures what is measured. This issue, what measurement is , is so fundamental it drives all subsequent ontology, metaphysics and philosophy based on it. What we know so far, though, tells us our attempts to measure tend to disclose goodness of any chosen approach.