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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.

Operationalism Chang, Hasok 2009

The crux of the problem here for the operationalist is that theoretical concepts are much too useful in science.

Operationalism Chang, Hasok 2009

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.

Operationalism Chang, Hasok 2009

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.

Operationalism Chang, Hasok 2009

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.

Operationalism Chang, Hasok 2009

The operationalist dictum could be phrased as follows: maintain and increase the empirical content of theories by the use of operationally well-defined concepts.

Operationalism Chang, Hasok 2009

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.

Nobody Knows Nothing 2009

A third option, alternative to both type - (1) and type - (2) theories, would be an “operationalist” account of the sort advocated by Adams

Boundary Varzi, Achille 2008

(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.

Cosmology: Methodological Debates in the 1930s and 1940s Gale, George 2007

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.

Cosmology: Methodological Debates in the 1930s and 1940s Gale, George 2007