OPERATIONISM 3)
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A philosophical doctrine holding that the meaning of a concept can be defined only by a set of actual experimental operations.
In its most radical interpretation, operationism demands that such operations be measurable.
From a systemic viewpoint, this seems too restrictive, as it prohibits not only metaphors or analogies but altogether seemingly qualitative models as for example topological ones.
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- 1) General information
- 2) Methodology or model
- 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
- 4) Human sciences
- 5) Discipline oriented
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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).
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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (2020). Title of the entry. In Charles François (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics (2). Retrieved from www.systemspedia.org/[full/url]
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