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...

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...

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...