Recent work in the philosophy of scientific concepts has seen the simultaneous revival of operationalism and development of patchwork approaches to scientific concepts. We argue that these two approaches are natural allies. Both recognize an important role for measurement techniques in giving meaning to scientific terms. The association of multiple techniques with a single term, however, raises the threat of proliferating concepts (Hempel, 1966). While contemporary operationalists have developed some resources to address this challenge, these resources are inadequate to account for the full range of complex behaviors of scientific concepts. We adopt show how the patchwork approach’s repertoire of inter-patch relations can expand the resources available to the operationalist. We focus on one especially important type of inter-patch relation: sharing a general reasoning strategy. General reasoning strategies serve two important functions: (1) they bind together distinct patches of scientific concepts, and (2) they provide normative guidance for extending concepts to new domains.

最近在科学概念哲学方面的工作见证了操作主义的复兴和科学概念拼凑方法的发展。我们认为这两种方法是天然的盟友。两者都认识到测量技术在赋予科学术语意义方面的重要作用。然而，将多种技术与单个术语相关联会增加概念激增的威胁 (Hempel, 1966)。虽然当代操作主义者已经开发了一些资源来应对这一挑战，但这些资源不足以解释科学概念的所有复杂行为。我们采用展示补丁方法的补丁间关系库如何扩展操作员可用的资源。我们关注一种特别重要的补丁间关系：分享一个通用的推理策略。一般推理策略有两个重要功能：(1) 它们将不同的科学概念块结合在一起，(2) 它们为将概念扩展到新领域提供规范指导。