operationalist doctrine.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The crux of the problem here for the operationalist is that theoretical concepts are much too useful in science.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operationalism] Reference

According to an operationalist conception, these sorts of modifications would not be methodologically acceptable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific Realism] Reference

A third option, alternative to both type - (1) and type - (2) theories, would be an “operationalist” account of the sort advocated by Adams.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boundary] Reference

The operationalist dictum could be phrased as follows: maintain and increase the empirical content of theories by the use of operationally well-defined concepts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operationalism] Reference

Bridgman did not develop in detail his operationalist ideas in relation to any other science than physics, apparently content to leave that job to the specialists in the respective fields.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operationalism] Reference

It seems that Wedgwood initially did exactly what operationalist conscience would dictate: as the new instrument did not operate at all in the range of any trustworthy previous thermometers, he made a fresh scale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operationalism] Reference

The operationalist lesson he had taken from Einstein was so dear to him that he did not shrink from criticizing Einstein himself when the latter seemed to betray his own principles in the general theory of relativity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operationalism] Reference

Moreover, as this statement shows, Robertson is intimately familiar with Milne's latest operationalist reduction: space is to be reduced to time measurements given by clock readings on signals exchanged between observers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cosmology: Methodological Debates in the 1930s and 1940s] Reference

While followers of Mach lauded Einstein's attempt to implement a "relativization of inertia" in the general theory, they were much more comfortable with Einstein's operationalist treatment of concepts in the special theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Philosophical Interpretations of General Relativity] Reference

Peirce was not a simple operationalist in his philosophy of science; nor was he a simple verificationist in his epistemology: he believed in the reality of abstractions and in many ways resembles the medieval realists in metaphysics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobody Knows Nothing] Reference

The operationalist point of view, first expounded at length in that book, initially found many advocates among practicing physicists and those inspired by the tradition of American pragmatism or the new philosophy of logical positivism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operationalism] Reference

In short order, McCrea, Walker and Robertson succumbed to Milne's methodological recommendations: first, to carry out an operationalist paring of non-observational concepts, then, secondly, to embed the resulting minimalist concept set in an axiomatic hypothetical-deductive structure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cosmology: Methodological Debates in the 1930s and 1940s] Reference

(Kermack and McCrea 1933) While he thought that Milne's operationalist criticisms of curved and expanding space were of little import, McCrea was the first to notice the parsimony and elegance of Milne's strictly kinematic solution to the problem of the origin of the universe's expansion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cosmology: Methodological Debates in the 1930s and 1940s] Reference

(discussed in Section 1.3 above) in which he criticized Einstein for betraying his own operationalist lesson in the general theory of relativity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operationalism] Reference

This latter view, which can be classified under the head of operationalist theories of knowledge, is more representative of the inductivist approach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Progressive Bloggers] Reference

One, ruefully noting the difficulty of giving an operationalist analysis of the general theory, even suggested that the requirement of general covariance "conceals the possibility of disaster" (Bridgman (1949).    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Philosophical Interpretations of General Relativity] Reference

Hint, operationalist Eysenk gets trashed!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tired of Dogmatism] Reference

It turns out the Mach / positivist / Friedman / operationalist / covering law picture of science does not even apply to the simplest models of Newtonian physics, it's most plausible application.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Defense of Macroeconomists, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

“operationalist”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Causation and Manipulability] Reference