functionalist

functionalism | Business English

functionalism
noun[ U ]
 HRuk /ˈfʌŋkʃənəlɪzəm/us
the idea that products, organizations, etc. should be designed to be practical and useful:
The new anti-consumers are shunning supermarket functionalism in favour of local traders and farmers' markets.

Examples of functionalism

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Atomistic functionalism claims that there is a direct linkage between functional motivations and 'properties of particular grammars ' (174).
But evolutionary functionalism does not strike me as necessarily normative.
Besides offering useful descriptive insights, probabilistic functionalism can also be predictive.
Admittedly, many functionalists would reject this characterization as impossible since many functionalists see rejection of generative theory as a fundamental component of functionalism.
In this section we also briefly describe the recent threat to functionalism.
In particular, the new functionalism is imbedded in a multilateral approach.
From the perspective of realizer functionalism, the role variety rides roughshod over distinctions that need to be taken seriously.
From the present state of play, it seems to us, either future semantic trajectory is possible; but neither threatens functionalism.
Functionalism does not explain why and how objective functional relations produce phenomenal experience.
This detailed approach is committed to four major theoretical issues; lexical functionalism, connectivism, input-driven learning, and capacity.
Only minimal provision at minimal cost under a banner of crude functionalism was possible.
Does functionalism really deal with the phenomenal side of experience?
First, physicalist versions of at least some forms of functionalism are rightly seen as paradigm cases of a topic-neutral approach.
It further contends that the problem lies in functionalism itself, and that, to save the causal significance of mind, it is necessary to re-embrace reductionism.
Functionalism is not a slightly modified cultural historicism.
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