单词 | pragmaticism |
释义 | pragmaticismn. rare. 1. The quality of being pragmatic, esp. of regarding things in a realistic or practical manner, rather than being guided by theoretical or ideological considerations. Also: the quality of being dogmatic or opinionated (now rare). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [noun] scholarism1588 pedantism1592 pedantry1612 scholasticism1797 bluestockingism1812 donnishness1835 donnism1859 pragmaticism1865 usherism1869 pragmatism1895 mandarinism1976 the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [noun] > stubbornness in opinion self-judgement1525 self-opinion1553 opiniatrety1577 opiniastretyc1598 opinionativeness1599 opiniativeness1611 opiniastrya1643 opiniateness1645 opiniatrecy1649 opiniatry1651 opinionastry1655 opinionatedness1662 self-opiniativeness1674 opiniousness1688 opiniatreness1689 opinionatry1689 opinionatre1693 opiniatreture1699 opiniatreship1704 pragmaticism1865 self-opinionedness1879 opinionation1919 1865 tr. D. F. Strauss New Life Jesus II. ii. lxxxi. 279 Its decay as being observed by the disciples on the next [day], and not before, is pedantry and pragmaticism. 1968 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 7 June 8/5 Pragmaticism has replaced the light heartedness so long associated with young people. 1970 Bull. Inst. for Study of U.S.S.R. Aug. 17 Wiles also analyses the regimes in China and Cuba, where property relations are laid down by the Party: this, in his view, will inevitably lead to a kind of pragmaticism and finally to a bureaucracy bereft of ideological impetus. 2002 Time Out (Nexis) 2 Oct. 70 Gone are the quirky indie touches of 'Swingers' and 'Go', to be replaced by a journeyman's ruthless pragmaticism and self-effacement. 2. Philosophy. = pragmatism n. 4a; spec. the pragmatic philosophy of C. S. Peirce.In his late writings, Peirce (the first proponent of pragmatism as a philosophical method) preferred to use this term to distinguish his own philosophy from the various currents of thought which had by then developed under the name of ‘pragmatism’. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > pragmatism > [noun] practicalism1898 pragmatism1898 pragmaticism1904 practicism1909 1904 H. G. Wells in Mind 13 381 Though I seem to follow a path of my own, yet it is probably that I do at last emerge somewhere near to and parallel with what you are calling here Pragmaticism and Humanism as I find these terms defined by Mr. Schiller. 1905 C. S. Peirce in Monist 15 166 So then, the writer, finding his bantling ‘pragmatism’ so promoted, feels that it is time to kiss his child good-by and relinquish it to its higher destiny; while to serve the precise purpose of expressing the original definition, he begs to announce the birth of the word ‘pragmaticism’, which is ugly enough to be safe from kidnappers. 1934 C. Hartshorne et al. Coll. Papers C. S. Peirce V. p. v Pragmaticism (Peirce's term to indicate his divergencies from other pragmatists) was thus Peirce's way of insisting that abstractions must give an account of themselves. 1979 Dictionaries 1 97 The language of an anglicized German idealism..or of Peirce's pragmaticism is not the philosophical language of today. 1995 Oxf. Compan. Philos. 709/2 Pragmaticism differed from other versions [of pragmatism] in its commitment to realism and in the claim that a strict proof of it could be given. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1865 |
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