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NOT only in his posthumous work, “Fundamental Theory”1, but also in many of his earlier writings, Eddington was concerned to define the mathematical structure of what he called a ‘measurable’, and to distinguish a measurable from an observable, and an observable from the most primitive entity, which he regarded as resembling a geometrical point except that, instead of having position only (a far from primitive attribute), it has existence (or non-existence) only.
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GREGORY, C. A Proposal to replace Belief by Method in the Pre-mensural Sciences. Nature 185, 124 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/185124a0
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