¶ Operational
Index Entry
Operational:
“We got to that big definition of Universe and we discovered that it was the only way we could state it and be faithful to our rule of this game, which is what Bridgman called operational, that is, we must state whatever we have to state in terms of our personal experience. Some of the philosophers of a century ago were calling it pragmatism. At any rate they were stating what we know about our life in terms of a description of the events themselves, the most faithful description of the events themselves that precipitated any thought in any way we could think about it. Faithfulness of the description of our own experiences, so we were not interested in what somebody said they thought was significant.”
¶ Citations
- Oregon Lecture #8, p. 276. 12 Jul’62
