OPERATIONALISM? —“Define operation(alism)”—
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Scientific Method ->
…. Operational Definition ->
…. …. Operationalism (Physical Sciences) /
…. …. Operationism (Psychology) /
…. …. Intuitionism (Mathematics) /
…. …. Praxeology (Economics)
ie: “Actions”.
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HOWEVER, since all science must be falsificationary, all arguments to justificationism (positivism) are false. As such the value of operational language (grammar and semantics) is to force empirical (existential) description as a means of avoiding hand waving, obscurantism, suggestion, and deceit.
OTHER CONCEPTS
Critical Rationalism
Critical Preference
Justificationism
Falsificationism
Propertarianism (Vitruvianism, Acquisitionism, Propertarianism, Testimonialism, Natural Law) is all Falsificationary. In other words, like evolution, that which survives falsification is potentially true. And justification either is neutral or reduces the empirical (measurable) content of an argument.
VIA NEGATIVA (FALSIFICATION) VS VIA POSITIVA (JUSTIFICATION)
So imagine a pair of sculptors, one working in stone, subtracting (falsificationism), and the other working in clay, adding, (justificationism).
The two must match, or one, the other, or both is false.
In other words, just as the only test of production is a voluntary exchange, the only test of truth is survival in the market for competition.