verifiˈcationism
[f. verification + -ism.]
The philosophical doctrine or principles associated with verification (sense 3 c).
| 1939 I. Berlin in Proc. Aristotelian Soc. XXXIX. 226 It will tend to show that historical connexion between phenomenalism and ‘verificationism’ is not a logical one, and that the failure of the latter does not necessarily invalidate the former. 1943 Mind LII. 98 Full-blooded verificationism..has now commonly been abandoned in favour of what might be called methodological verificationism. 1965 [see operationalism]. |