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The research for this paper has been supported by NSF grants IST79-24526 to New York University and IST79-224019 to the University of California, Irvine. We are grateful to R. Duncan Luce, Geoffrey Iverson and Misha Pavel for a number of helpful suggestions.
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Falmagne, J.C., Narens, L. Scales and meaningfulness of quantitative laws. Synthese 55, 287–325 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00485824
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