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Operationism Analysed Operationally

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Hornell Hart*
Affiliation:
Duke University, Durham, N. C.

Extract

Stevens (7 pp. 249-251) has presented a “lusty embryonic” Science of Science, as having arisen out of “operationism as a revolution against absolute and undefinable concepts in physics, behaviorism as a revolution against dualistic mentalism in psychology, and Logical Positivism as a revolution against rational metaphysics in philosophy.”

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association 1940

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