Crossword-Solution: PRAGMATISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pragmatism | n. | The quality or state of being pragmatic; in literature, the pragmatic, or philosophical, method. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “PRAGMATISM”
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| "Whatever gets the job done" philosophy | 1 answer |
| Doctrine that things are justified by practical utility | 1 answer |
| William James' philosophy. | 1 answer |
| Realism | 9 answers |
| expedience | 63 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with PRAGMATISM (5)
Unfortunately, we as trust- ing Americans, have allowed a complacency to overshadow prudent pragmatism.
HENRY CONTENTS "The Rose of Dixie" The Third Ingredient The Hiding of Black Bill Schools and Schools Thimble, Thimble Supply and Demand Buried Treasure To Him Who Waits He Also Serves The Moment of Victory The Head-Hunter No Story The Higher Pragmatism Best-Seller Rus in Urbe A Poor Rule "THE ROSE OF DIXIE" When _The Rose of Dixie_ magazine was started by a stock company in Toombs City, Georgia, there was never but one candidate for its chief editorial position in the minds of its owners.
About twelve years ago, when every one suddenly talked to me about Pragmatism and William James, I found myself moved by a dull but irresistible impulse to try Schopenhauer, of whom, years before that, I had heard that he was the easiest reading in the world, and the most exciting and amusing.
The practical sense and pragmatism ascertained in the formation of America were adopted as causes worth fighting for.
Gallie (Peirce's Pragmatism, in Peirce and Pragmatism, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952) noticed that Peirce, "in the Pragmaticism Papers, approaches the subject of vagueness from a number of different sides.
Quotes with PRAGMATISM (3)
It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof that religion is true. That would be an extension of pragmatism beyond endurance. Santa Claus makes children good in precisely the same way, and yet no one would argue seriously that the fact proves his existence. The defense of religion is full of such logical imbecilities. The theologians, taking one with another, are adept logicians, but every now and …
Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?
[Wither] knew that everything was lost. It is incredible how little this knowledge moved him. What had been in his far-off youth a merely aesthetic repugnance to realities that were crude or vulgar, had deepened and darkened, year after year, into a fixed refusal of everything that was in any degree other than himself. He had passed from Hegel into Hume, thence through Pragmatism, and thence through logical Positivism, and out at last into the complete void. The indicative mo…
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Appears in: NY Sun, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1964–2007).