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pragmatism

The theory that political problems should be met with practical solutions rather than ideological ones

The idea that beliefs are identified with the actions of a believer, and the truth of beliefs with success of those actions in securing a believer's goals; the doctrine that ideas must be looked at in terms of their practical effects and consequences

Our conception of these practical consequences is for us the whole of our conception of the object This is the principle of Peirce, the principle of pragmatism.

The pursuit of practicality over aesthetic qualities; a concentration on facts rather than emotions or ideals

The quality or state of being pragmatic; in literature, the pragmatic, or philosophical, method

There are many things and what benefits me most is true (if it works, fine If it doesn't work, fix it If you can't fix it, throw it away and start over) Pragmatism is not far from monism as the circle goes

A philosophic school linking the meaning of beliefs to the actions of a believer, and the truth of beliefs to success of those actions in securing a believers goals

A method in philosophy where value is determined by practical results

Pragmatism means thinking of or dealing with problems in a practical way, rather than by using theory or abstract principles. She had a reputation for clear thinking and pragmatism. + pragmatist pragmatists prag·ma·tist He is a political pragmatist, not an idealist. a way of dealing with problems in a sensible, practical way instead of following a set of ideas. Philosophical movement first given systematic expression by Charles Sanders Peirce and William James and later taken up and transformed by John Dewey. Pragmatists emphasize the practical function of knowledge as an instrument for adapting to reality and controlling it. Pragmatism agrees with empiricism in its emphasis on the priority of experience over a priori reasoning. Whereas truth had traditionally been explained in terms of correspondence with reality or in terms of coherence (see coherentism), pragmatism holds that truth is to be found in the process of verification. Pragmatists interpret ideas as instruments and plans of action rather than as images of reality; more specifically, they are suggestions and anticipations of possible conduct, hypotheses or forecasts of what will result from a given action, or ways of organizing behaviour. See also W.V.O. Quine; Richard Rorty

Theory that the truth of ideas, concepts and values depends on their utility or capacity to serve a useful purpose rather than on their conformity with objective standards; also called utilitarianism

The pursuit of practicality over aesthetic qualities; utilitarianism

Part of the symbolic interactionist view, which suggests that meaning lies essentially in how people act or behave James and Peirce believed that the function of thought is to guide human action

Philosophies that hold that the meaning of concepts lies in the difference they make to conduct and that the function of thought is to guide action

{i} philosophical movement based on using practical consequences as the primary basis for evaluation; practicality, quality of being practical

The compromising of ones ideals to better deal with the specifics of a situation

The practice of testing validity of all concepts by their practical results

the philosophical school of thought, associated with Dewey, James, and Peirce, that tries to mediate between idealism and materialists by rejecting all absolute first principles, tests truth through workability, and views the universe as pluralistic

A philosophical doctrine formulated and defended by Charles S Peirce, William James, John Dewey, George Herbert Mead, and C I Lewis It was originally formulated by Peirce as a maxim for how to make our ideas clear Having evolved into the theory of meaning, pragmatism insists upon the necessity of interpreting our utterances in terms of their conceivable bearing upon our conduct As a theory of truth, it proposes that we conceive truth in terms of such notions as what facilitates our commerce with experience

(philosophy) the doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge and meaning and value

The theory that ideas or principles are true so far as they work In general, pragmatists rely on empirical or experimental methods and reject apriorism as a source of human knowledge Because pragmatists differ among themselves in their use of the term, it is difficult to give a short precise definition For adequate treatment see Dagobert A Runes' Dictionary of Philosophy HA 23-24,32

an ethical system based on the expedient way to accomplish a desired result, regardless of the means

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