Definition of operationalist in English:
operationalist
noun & adjective
PhilosophySee operationalism
‘This suffices to qualify stress as a permissible concept from the operationalist standpoint.’
- ‘He adopted a constructivist interpretation of mathematics which bordered upon formalism, and regarded this as the natural complement to his operationalist philosophy in physics.’
- ‘Those who said that these were real because they were useful were instrumentalists, while those who said they were real to the extent that they correlated with measurements were operationalists.’
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