operationalizability

noun

The state or characteristic of being capable of being operationalized.

Scrabble 36

Meanings

nounoperationalizability (uncountable)

alternative operationalisability

  1. uncountableThe state or characteristic of being capable of being operationalized.

    I do not have a non-perspectival sense of objectivity here because of its prima facie lack of operationalizability.

    2004, Heather Douglas, “The Irreducible Complexity of Objectivity”, in Synthese, volume 138, number 3, note 19, page 472
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    There is a good review of the literature, using the criteria of comprehensiveness, comparability, operationalizability, and public policy relevance.

    1981, H. H. Lentner, “Review of Foreign Policy Behavior: The Interstate Behavior Analysis Model by Jonathan Wilkenfeld et al.”, in American Political Science Review, volume 75, number 3, page 756

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