CLARITY OF THINKING – OPERATIONALISM IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES —“Bridgman also ex

CLARITY OF THINKING – OPERATIONALISM IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

—“Bridgman also extended his operationalist thinking by considering its implications outside physics. This was important to him at least from the time of The Logic of Modern Physics, in which he ventured: “many of the questions asked about social and philosophical subjects will be found to be meaningless when examined from the point of operations. It would doubtless conduce greatly to clarity of thought if the operational mode of thinking were adopted in all fields of inquiry as well as in the physical” (30–32).”– S.E.P. Operationalism (Bridgeman).