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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope