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operationism|ɒpəˈreɪʃənɪz(ə)m| [f. operation + -ism.] = operationalism.
1935Psychol. Rev. XLII. 517 The principles of operationism provide a procedure by which the concepts of psychology can be cast in rigorous form. 1942D. D. Runes Dict. Philos. 219/2 Operationism makes explicit the distinction between formal and empirical sentences. 1970Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. LXXXII. 113 About 25 years ago, during the period that I may call rampant operationism, a great many psychologists were misled into believing that here at last..was the long-needed panacea for guaranteeing useful scientific terms. 1975New Left Rev. Nov.–Dec. 53 Baihelard's concept of the transitive dimension of science is flawed by operationism and an unrelenting hostility to the role of the imagination in science. Hence opeˈrationist a. and n. = operationalist n. and a.
1950Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. XL. 112 An unwarranted assumption is..that a person who is frustrated in a behaviourist or operationist sense, necessarily feels frustrated. 1951Mind LX. 46 The operationist school in psychology. Ibid. 53 All operationists are rationalistic in the sense that they maintain that unless scientists define their terms operationally they will not uncover Nature's secrets. 1956E. H. Hutten Lang. Mod. Physics ii. 62 The operationist theory of meaning..is not acceptable. |