Does Temperature have a Metric Structure?

Is there anything more to temperature than the ordering of things from colder to hotter? Are there also facts, for example, about how much hotter (twice as hot, three times as hot...) one thing is than another? There certainly are-but the only strong justification for this claim comes from statistic...

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Main Author: Skow, Bradford (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Philosophy of Science Association, 2011-03-25T20:08:13Z.
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