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operationism
Variant of operationalism
noun
Philos. the doctrine that no concept or term used in a purportedly factual statement has valid meaning unless it can be defined in terms of repeatable, empirical operations, experimental procedures, etc.
also operationism
Related Forms:
- operationalist noun
- operationalistic adjective
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