Pragmatist
Keyword: Pragmatist
Dictionary Entry | Posted 22/11/2015 Quote from "Peirce's Personal Interleaved Copy of the 'Century Dictionary' [Commens]" Pragmatist, n., in philosophy, one who professes to practice pragmatism. Thus Schiller of Oxford, author of Riddles of the Sphinx, is a pragmatist... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 27/08/2015 Quote from "Miscellaneous Fragments [R]" A pragmatist, as I understand it, is one who systematically strives to “swallow” (in Carlyle’s sense) the formulas, the phrases in which doctrines are dressed, and to... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 21/07/2014 Quote from "Pragmatism" I reckon any philosopher who emphasizes the element of purpose in intellectual action as a sort of pragmatist; and so computed, the majority of the philosophical... |