How to Use functionalism in a Sentence

functionalism

noun

• The idea of functionalism was Putnam’s response to the fashionable theories of the time about how to understand mental states, such as thoughts, feelings, judgments, and beliefs.
  — Theodore McDarrah, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
• Half a century later, functionalism remains a dominant theory in the philosophy of mind.
  — Theodore McDarrah, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
• His most enduring legacy is functionalism, a theory defining mental states by their internal function within a cognitive system, rather than just behavior or brain processes.
  — Theodore McDarrah, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
• Additionally, young architects in particular felt that modernism represented little more than an aesthetic language, and sought to create structures rooted in functionalism and monumental expression.
  — Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 2 Mar. 2026
• In junkspace, Koolhaas argues, formal strategies associated with modern art and design—abstraction, functionalism, fragmentation, radical juxtaposition—are hastily and unceremoniously redeployed in the ordinary language of commerce.
  — Alec Mapes-Frances, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026