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The author's purpose is to present a somewhat broader definition of measurement than has been given by certain other writers and to show that scales constructed by the method of paired comparisons will satisfy this broader definition of measurement. Significant features of the method of paired comparisons and the law of comparative judgment have been consistently ignored. It has several advantages over other psychological scaling methods. Besides satisfying criteria for ordinal scales, scales constructed by this method satisfy a generalization of the criterion specified by Campbell for additive scales. The nature of scale values is discussed. Paired comparison scales should be classified as defined magnitudes. Developments during the past 20 years warrant greater use of the method of paired comparisons as a psychological scaling method. 24 references. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)