Abstract

<p>This is a reissue of a paper which appeared in ACTA IMEKO <span lang="EN-US">1979, Proceedings of the 8th IMEKO Congress of the International Measurement Confederation, "Measurement for progress in science and technology", 21.-27.5.1979, Moscow, vol. 1, pp. 103-110.</span></p><p>The main questions to be answered in the theory of measurement are presented, and their formulation analysed in the classical approach and in a new operative one: the scope and aims of the theory itself, the concepts of measurable quantity, measurement results, error, uncertainty, the role of time. The paper is meant to define problems as the first step toward their solution.</p>

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