Usually means: Mental states defined by roles.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. functionalism: Merriam-Webster
  2. functionalism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. functionalism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. functionalism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. functionalism: Vocabulary.com
  6. Functionalism, functionalism: Wordnik
  7. functionalism: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. functionalism: Wiktionary
  9. functionalism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. functionalism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. functionalism: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. functionalism: Dictionary.com
  13. Functionalism (Cognitive Science), Functionalism (architecture), Functionalism (international relations), Functionalism (linguistics), Functionalism (philosophy), Functionalism (philosophy of mind), Functionalism (psychology), Functionalism (sociology), Functionalism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. functionalism: Rhymezone
  15. functionalism: FreeDictionary.org
  16. functionalism: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. functionalism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. functionalism: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. functionalism: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. functionalism: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  2. Philosophy of Mind (No longer online)
  3. Functionalism: Eastern Philosophy
  4. The Ism Book (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Functionalism (disambiguation), functionalism: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  3. functionalism: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  4. Functionalism: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)
  2. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  4. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

(Note: See functionalist as well.)

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noun:  (architecture) A doctrine, in several fields, that the function of something should be reflected in its design and the materials used in its construction.
noun:  (philosophy) The definition of mental states in terms of their causes and effects.
noun:  (social sciences) The idea that social and cultural cohesion are a function of the interdependence and interactions of the institutions of a society.
noun:  (history) The theory that the Holocaust was the result of a gradual escalation of decisions and procedures at the operational level (approved but not necessarily preconceived by Hitler).
noun:  (psychology) A general school of thought that considers psychological phenomena in terms of their role in adaptation to the person's environment.
noun:  (linguistics) Synonym of functional linguistics

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