operationismn.

1935 Psychol. Rev. 42 517 The principles of operationism provide a procedure by which the concepts of psychology can be cast in rigorous form.

1970 Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. 83 113 About 25 years ago, during the period that I may call rampant operationism, a great many psychologists were misled into believing that here at last..was the long-needed panacea for guaranteeing useful scientific terms.

1975 New Left Rev. Nov. 53 Baihelard's concept of the transitive dimension of science is flawed by operationism and an unrelenting hostility to the role of the imagination in science.

1992 A. Vercelli in A. Vercelli & N. Dimitri Macroeconomics xiv. 412 They risk slipping into the pitfalls of ‘operationism’ and ‘inductivism’, long since rejected by the philosophy of science.