In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
OPERATIONALISM
operationalism
(noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that the meaning of a proposition consists of the operations involved in proving or applying it
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
operationalism (countable and uncountable, plural operationalisms)
(sciences) A philosophy that attempts to define all scientific concepts in terms of specified operations or procedures of observation and measurement
Source: Wiktionary
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QUANDONG
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