{"id":9739,"date":"2017-10-16T03:33:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T10:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=9739"},"modified":"2017-10-16T03:33:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T10:33:50","slug":"helmholtzs-zhlen-und-messen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=9739","title":{"rendered":"Helmholtz's <cite>Z&auml;hlen und Messen<\/cite>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I first encountered mention of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de\/archiv\/13161\"><cite>Z&auml;hlen und Messen, erkenntnisstheoretisch betrachtet<\/cite><\/a> &#91;<a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Numbering_and_Measuring.pdf\"><cite>Numbering and Measuring, Epistemologically Considered<\/cite><\/a>&#93; by Hermann [Ludwig Ferdinand] von Helmholtz, which sought to construct arithmetic on an empiricist foundation, I was interested.  But for a very long while I did not act on that interest.<\/p> <p>A few years ago, I learned of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.praxiologic.com\/economics\/papers\/zahl_und_mass.pdf\"><cite>Zahl und Mass in der \u00d6konomik: Eine kritische Untersuchung der mathematischen Methode und der mathematischen Preistheorie<\/cite> (1893), by Andreas Heinrich Voigt<\/a>, a early work on the mathematics of utility, and that it drew upon Helmholtz's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de\/archiv\/13161\"><cite>Z&auml;hlen und Messen<\/cite><\/a>, which impelled me to seek a copy of the latter to read.  To my annoyance, I found that there was no English-language version of it freely available on-line.  I decided to create one, but was distracted from the project by other matters.  A few days ago, I recognized that my immediate circumstances were such that it might be a good time to return to the task.<\/p> <p>I have produced <a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Numbering_and_Measuring.pdf\">a translation<\/a>, <span style=\"display: block ; margin-top: 0.5em ; margin-bottom: 0.5em ; text-align: center ;\"><a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Numbering_and_Measuring.pdf\"><cite>Numbering and Measuring, Epistemologically Considered<\/cite> by Hermann von Helmholtz<\/a><\/span> It is not much better than serviceable.  I don't plan to return to the work, to refine the translation, except perhaps where some reader has suggested a clear improvement and I effect a transcription.<\/p> <p>I have not inserted what criticisms I might make of this work into the document.  Nor have I presented my thoughts on how Helmholtz's ostensible empiricism and Frege's logicism are not as far apart as might be thought.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When I first encountered mention of Z&auml;hlen und Messen, erkenntnisstheoretisch betrachtet &#91;Numbering and Measuring, Epistemologically Considered&#93; by Hermann [Ludwig Ferdinand] von Helmholtz, which sought to construct arithmetic on an empiricist foundation, I was interested. But for a very long while I did not act on that interest. 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