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Definition of pragmatist in English: pragmatistnoun ˈpraɡmətɪstˈpræɡmədəst 1A person who is guided more by practical considerations than by ideals. hardheaded pragmatists firmly rooted in the real world Example sentencesExamples - He's a pragmatist who's painfully aware of how hard it is to effect change in large organizations.
- Edison is the paradigm of the blind pragmatist, making hundreds of bad prototypes to 'bottle' light.
- He was just as fierce a survivor and business pragmatist as he was a gifted cinematic artist.
- Always the pragmatist, I kept my umbrella ready—just in case.
- The cruel potentate is toppled by a vengeful pragmatist who can't wait to get his hands on his mineral resources.
- Regulators are pragmatists of the worst kind—they seek to achieve random, short-term goals regardless of the validity of the methods employed.
- I've always been torn between my two selves—the artist and the pragmatist.
- Often the visionary has to work hand in glove with a pragmatist to get results.
- So far, he has voted broadly in line with the pragmatists.
- She is dangerously charismatic as a ruthless pragmatist in a sharp gangster suit.
2Philosophy
An advocate of the approach that evaluates theories or beliefs in terms of the success of their practical application. American pragmatists have influenced a great deal of recent philosophy of many types as modifier the foundations of pragmatist philosophy Example sentencesExamples - The old pillars of the pragmatist traditions were still active in 1945, but the new positions being developed captured the attention of post-war students of philosophy.
- They were not all pragmatists—there was, for example, a group of philosophers who developed what they called a 'critical realist' position.
- My own view is that it is sensible to start by adopting the pragmatist idea that beliefs involve dispositions to action.
- Suppose, with these pragmatists and other contextualists, we focus on the activity of justifying beliefs to the exclusion of the state of being justified in holding a belief.
- It should be noted that the abductive method is associated with the pragmatist school of philosophy, which does not hold a realist view of knowledge.
- In practice, being a pragmatist is much more like being a realist than a crude relativist.
- Think of him as a logical empiricist who has shed the dogmas of empiricism—that is, as a pragmatist in the tradition of William James.
- A pragmatist does not think that what we think is true is the same as what is true, since we may think something to be true which doesn't work.
- I agreed to stop calling my position either a coherence or a correspondence theory if he would give up the pragmatist theory of truth.
- Dewey emphasized the pragmatist thesis that our actions have a fundamental role in shaping our understanding of the world.
Definition of pragmatist in US English: pragmatistnounˈpraɡmədəstˈpræɡmədəst 1A person who is guided more by practical considerations than by ideals. hardheaded pragmatists firmly rooted in the real world Example sentencesExamples - She is dangerously charismatic as a ruthless pragmatist in a sharp gangster suit.
- So far, he has voted broadly in line with the pragmatists.
- I've always been torn between my two selves—the artist and the pragmatist.
- Always the pragmatist, I kept my umbrella ready—just in case.
- Edison is the paradigm of the blind pragmatist, making hundreds of bad prototypes to 'bottle' light.
- Regulators are pragmatists of the worst kind—they seek to achieve random, short-term goals regardless of the validity of the methods employed.
- He was just as fierce a survivor and business pragmatist as he was a gifted cinematic artist.
- He's a pragmatist who's painfully aware of how hard it is to effect change in large organizations.
- Often the visionary has to work hand in glove with a pragmatist to get results.
- The cruel potentate is toppled by a vengeful pragmatist who can't wait to get his hands on his mineral resources.
2Philosophy
An advocate of the approach that evaluates theories or beliefs in terms of the success of their practical application. American pragmatists have influenced a great deal of recent philosophy of many types as modifier the foundations of pragmatist philosophy Example sentencesExamples - Think of him as a logical empiricist who has shed the dogmas of empiricism—that is, as a pragmatist in the tradition of William James.
- In practice, being a pragmatist is much more like being a realist than a crude relativist.
- It should be noted that the abductive method is associated with the pragmatist school of philosophy, which does not hold a realist view of knowledge.
- A pragmatist does not think that what we think is true is the same as what is true, since we may think something to be true which doesn't work.
- Suppose, with these pragmatists and other contextualists, we focus on the activity of justifying beliefs to the exclusion of the state of being justified in holding a belief.
- Dewey emphasized the pragmatist thesis that our actions have a fundamental role in shaping our understanding of the world.
- My own view is that it is sensible to start by adopting the pragmatist idea that beliefs involve dispositions to action.
- I agreed to stop calling my position either a coherence or a correspondence theory if he would give up the pragmatist theory of truth.
- The old pillars of the pragmatist traditions were still active in 1945, but the new positions being developed captured the attention of post-war students of philosophy.
- They were not all pragmatists—there was, for example, a group of philosophers who developed what they called a 'critical realist' position.
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