operationalism

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.

In Defense of Macroeconomists, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

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.

Operationalism Chang, Hasok 2009

Increasing the latter, or at least maintaining it, was something that Bridgman sought to achieve with his operationalism.

Operationalism Chang, Hasok 2009

It is often said that operationalism cannot be right because each scientific concept can be measured in various ways.

Operationalism Chang, Hasok 2009

In more general terms, operationalism can be seen as a strategy for increasing the empirical content of scientific theories.

Operationalism Chang, Hasok 2009

Nowhere was the positivist disappointment with Bridgman sharper than in considerations of operationalism as a theory of meaning.

Operationalism Chang, Hasok 2009

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.

Operationalism Chang, Hasok 2009

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.

Operationalism Chang, Hasok 2009

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.

Operationalism Chang, Hasok 2009

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.

Operationalism Chang, Hasok 2009