operationalism

But, as in economics, the supporters ultimately ended up "turning operationalism inside out".

This is an empiricism related to kinds of positivism and to operationalism.

His writings on the philosophy of science advocated operationalism, he coined the term operational definition.

He was concerned to establish an operationalism at the semantic level of information systems rather than the binary level.

In psychology the positivist movement was influential in the development of behavioralism and operationalism.

Operationalism can be considered a variation on the positivist theme, and, arguably, a very powerful and influential one.

A third person definition does not refer to specific mental qualia but instead strives for objectivity and operationalism.

Dennett describes the theory as first-person operationalism.

In the 1920s, Percy Bridgman's operationalism was centered in such recognition.

The book is notable for explicitly identifying, analyzing, and explaining operationalism for the first time, and coining the term operational definition.

"instrumentalism and operationalism," The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition.

In this Boring expresses his monist physicalism perspective, similar to operationalism's emphasis on measurement in order to understand the meaning of concepts.

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy says the following about Operationalism as written by Richard Boyd:

The doctrine of operationalism took a particularly extreme view on this issue by stipulating that the meaning of a concept consisted in the operations required to measure it.

This comes from the philosophy of science book The Logic of Modern Physics (1927), by Percy Williams Bridgman, whose methodological position is called operationalism.

Philosopher Daniel Dennett has argued that first-person operationalism is possible and desirable, using the anthropological version of the scientific method to bring the mind fully into the third-person realm required by science.

Similarly, Percy Williams Bridgman is credited with the methodological position known as operationalism, which asserts that all observations are not only influenced, but necessarily defined by the means and assumptions used to measure them.

A modern American edition, based on the 1888 edition, was edited by the American physicist and father of "operationalism", Percy Williams Bridgman (Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, 1960).

This is a position which Popper has called theoreticism as distinct from operationalism, with its concern for measuring operationalized concepts, and distinct from instrumentalism, the concern with using science for predicting impending events.

However, this rejection of operationalism as a general project destined ultimately to define all experiential phenomena uniquely did not mean that operational definitions ceased to have any practical use or that they could not be applied in particular cases.

The difference is that coordinative definitions do not necessarily define theoretical terms in terms of laboratory procedures or experimentation, as operationalism does, but may also define them in terms of observable or empirical entities.

One of the main critics of operationalism in social science argues that "the original goal was to eliminate the subjective mentalistic concepts that had dominated earlier psychological theory and to replace them with a more operationally meaningful account of human behavior.

Yet logical positivism was mostly influenced by Ernst Mach's phenomenalism-which accorded the mind virtually no power to attain knowledge beyond that delivered by direct sensory experience-and by the putative operationalism of Percy Bridgman, as well as by an interpretation of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy of language.