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  • In Gustav Bergmann's assessment, operationism helped behaviorism to move from its initial metaphysical Watsonian variety to its modern version

    Operationalism Chang, Hasok 2009

  • Behaviorist psychologists took up operationalism (or operationism, as it was more often called in psychology) as a weapon in their fight against more traditional psychologists, especially those who prized introspection as the most important source of psychological knowledge.

    Operationalism Chang, Hasok 2009

  • Positivist philosophy and operationism in physics made this move very phil - osophically appealing, and the step from physical and chemical analogies to mind-body identity theory has become fashionable in recent philosophical psychology.

    ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS ROBERT M. YOUNG 1968

  • It was Boring's student Stanley Smith Stevens (1906 “ 1973) who was perhaps the most aggressive promoter of operationism in psychology

    Operationalism Chang, Hasok 2009

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