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    The context-dependence of measurement outcomes does not threaten their general applicability.

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    • 1.Measurement outcomes that satisfy coherence and objectivity remain valid independently of the specific assumptions involved in their production.
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    • 2.If measurement outcomes are valid independently of their production assumptions, context-dependence does not undermine general applicability.
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    • 1.Kuhn's incommensurability thesis demonstrates that measurement frameworks embed theory-laden assumptions that cannot be neutrally compared across paradigms.
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    • 2.If measurement outcomes presuppose paradigm-specific ontologies, their coherence within one framework does not guarantee applicability across different theoretical contexts.
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    • 3.General applicability requires cross-contextual validity, which theory-laden measurement systematically undermines regardless of internal coherence.
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    • 1.Chang's metrological regress argument shows that validating measurement standards requires prior measurements, producing circularity that is context-specific rather than universal.
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    • 2.Coherence achieved through context-specific circular validation cannot serve as evidence of context-independent objectivity, as the supporting arguments assume.
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    Model-based accounts diverge from empiricist interpretations of measurement theory in that they do not require relations among measurement outcomes to be isomorphic or homomorphic to observable relations among the items being measured (Mari 2000). Indeed, according to model-based accounts relations among measured objects need not be observable at all prior to their measurement (Frigerio et al. 2010: 125). Instead, the key normative requirement of model-based accounts is that values be assigned t
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