Associations to the word «Operationalism»

Wiktionary

OPERATIONALISM, noun. (sciences) A philosophy that attempts to define all scientific concepts in terms of specified operations or procedures of observation and measurement

Dictionary definition

OPERATIONALISM, noun. (philosophy) the doctrine that the meaning of a proposition consists of the operations involved in proving or applying it.

Wise words

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
Amy Tan