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I do not agree with your perspective on “objective” measures. I will take age as an example. Like every other points of your list it is a fuzzy concept. However
by Nesco 5y ago
I do not agree with your perspective on “objective” measures. I will take age as an example. Like every other points of your list it is a fuzzy concept. However it looks rigorous and well defined because:
1 the scale of numbers we usually use is sufficiently large to smooth away the fuzziness at the origin.
2 Age is usually artificially quantised in years. This seems transparent because a year is in itself a very precise measure of time but a lot of information is
lost in this quantisation.
3. In its administrative form it seems well-defined because it actually is a platonic construct. The fact that it is measured since someone is birthed and not for example since its inception is totally arbitrary in regards to a lot of uses it’s made for. If someone was born after seven months instead of nine months, he will arbitrale counted as older.