To all, (01)
> >...what about stuff like happiness?
> >"Happiness" seems to be a mass noun like "water",
>>but it's even harder to measure or refer to.
>
>Its hard to measure, but that doesn't make it
>hard to *refer to*. What it might make hard is to
>describe it quantitatively, but we now have a lot
>of experience in how to use purely qualitative
>descriptions to draw quite sophisticated
>conclusions, cf. "qualitative physics". (02)
Social scientists have developed both quantitative and qualitative
measures of mental/emotional states an/or dispositions -- such as
happiness, anger, aggressiveness, etc. (03)
Decision theory has very well developed quantitative methods for
measuring preferences. (04)
Kathy (05)
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