Working paper — not peer reviewed
The Ruler and the Reality: How Much Does Measurement Depend on Us?
Twenty-one testable questions about reality, knowledge, representation, and measurement
People create symbols, units, models, and experimental practices, but they do not freely choose the world those tools must describe. This paper asks how much mathematics, science, and measurement depend on people. It separates questions about reality, knowledge, and representation through twenty-one testable pairs. The resulting view is provisional: people shape knowledge while remaining constrained by structures they did not create.