You can find Paul Samuelson talking about Mach and "operationalism" and econometrics and all sorts of philosophy of science whooee -- the picture of "real" science that Samuelson had in his head.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Defense of Macroeconomists, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

As Donald Gillies (1972, 6 “ 7) emphasizes, if we accept the most extreme kind of operationalism, there is no point in asking whether a measurement method is valid; if the measurement method defines the concept and there is nothing more to the meaning of the concept, the measurement method is automatically valid, as a matter of convention or even tautology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operationalism] Reference

“First person operationalism and mental taxonomy.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consciousness] Reference

The fate of operationalism illustrates this challenge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific Realism] Reference

So most logical empiricists felt compelled to reject operationalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific Realism] Reference

As for operationalism, you should take a loook at Kamin and Eysenk's The IQ debate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tired of Dogmatism] Reference

It is often said that operationalism cannot be right because each scientific concept can be measured in various ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operationalism] Reference

Increasing the latter, or at least maintaining it, was something that Bridgman sought to achieve with his operationalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operationalism] Reference

In more general terms, operationalism can be seen as a strategy for increasing the empirical content of scientific theories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operationalism] Reference

Bridgman made various attempts to get beyond the popular caricature of operationalism adopted by advocates and critics alike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operationalism] Reference

Nowhere was the positivist disappointment with Bridgman sharper than in considerations of operationalism as a theory of meaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operationalism] Reference

Charles Sanders Peirce was a wine-taster, IIRC, so winetasting made its contribution to pragmaticism Peirce's word and operationalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: WINE TALK.] Reference

Nevertheless, Peirce's views bear a strong family resemblance to operationalism and verificationism, despite his metaphysical leanings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobody Knows Nothing] Reference

Platonic, Aristotelian, and Cartesian metaphysics, and lately in many cultures with the Hegelian dialectic and contextualistic operationalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [METAPHOR IN PHILOSOPHY] Reference

Another significant feature of Skinner's approach is his operationalism, which has recently been fashionable as a theory about the language of science.    From Wordnik.com.  [BEHAVIORISM] Reference

In this final section, I would like to give a synoptic view of the relevance of operationalism to some issues that are current in philosophy of science.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operationalism] Reference

Positivists and behaviorists had embraced operationalism for precisely the opposite reason: they thought operations were public, objective and verifiable, unlike private experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operationalism] Reference

Even though very few scientists or economists take any notice of philosophy or methodology, the assumptions of positivism or some variant of it, like pragmatism or operationalism, rule by default.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Austrian Economics Heterodox Economics? - The Austrian Economists] Reference

Such operationalism would not destroy systematic unity; on the contrary, it is an optimal strategy for achieving as much systematic unity as nature would allow, in a strongly empiricist system of knowledge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operationalism] Reference

Retaining that sense of humility will help us in developing Bridgman's unfinished thoughts to create a new operationalism that does full justice to the complexity and richness of both nature and human scientific practice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operationalism] Reference

From the methodological lesson he took from Einstein to the insights gained in his own high-pressure physics, an important focus of Bridgman's operationalism was on regulating the extension of concepts to uncharted domains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operationalism] Reference

Milne's metaphysical views were based in positivism, most especially in operationalism: only those objects whose properties could be directly revealed by some observational procedure, or operation, were to be counted among the real.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cosmology: Methodological Debates in the 1930s and 1940s] Reference

Behaviorist psychologists took up operationalism (or operationism, as it was more often called in psychology) as a weapon in their fight against more traditional psychologists, especially those who prized introspection as the most important source of psychological knowledge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operationalism] Reference

Temple's analysis of Milne's work praises its simplicity and elegance, and refers in particular to its operationalism and axiomatization, which “start from a completely novel discussion of the correlation of measurements made by different observers in terms of light signals only.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cosmology: Methodological Debates in the 1930s and 1940s] Reference

(Whittaker 1935) While the senior physicist rejects Milne's operationalism and attacks upon the geometrical commitments of relativistic proponents, he is considerably more forgiving about Milne's hypothetico-deductivism, and even goes so far as to remark Milne's “brilliant record in astrophysical discovery.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cosmology: Methodological Debates in the 1930s and 1940s] Reference

In a series of lectures given at Harvard during late ˜32 and published early in the new year as The Expanding Universe, Eddington denied the efficacy of both operationalism and hypothetico-deductivism, and not only defended explanatory realism, but strengthened his ontological position heroically: the theoretical entities of relativistic cosmology were not just plausible, they were so necessary to understanding the universe, that cosmological knowledge was essentially impossible without them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cosmology: Methodological Debates in the 1930s and 1940s] Reference

An objection exactly analogous to the objection to operationalism may be brought against connectionism in general.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half an Hour] Reference

Kant, Immanuel | logical constants | logical positivism | logical truth | logicism | meaning, theories of | metaphysics | naturalism | operationalism | phenomenology |.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction] Reference

“phenomenalism”; with regard to the theoretical claims of science, as “operationalism”; and with regard to the claims about people's mental lives, as “analytical behaviorism” (the relevant experiential basis of mental claims in general being taken to be observations of others 'behavior).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction] Reference

Current relevance of operationalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operationalism] Reference

55), and Carl Hempel regarded operationalism and logical positivism as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operationalism] Reference

“operationalism.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operationalism] Reference