Definition of Pragmatists

1. Noun. (plural of pragmatist) ¹

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Definition of Pragmatists

1. pragmatist [n] - See also: pragmatist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pragmatists

pragmatic
pragmatic sanction
pragmatical
pragmatically
pragmaticalness
pragmaticism
pragmaticisms
pragmaticist
pragmaticists
pragmatics
pragmatique
pragmatism
pragmatisms
pragmatist
pragmatistic
pragmatists (current term)
pragmatize
pragmatized
pragmatizes
pragmatizing
prahu
prahus
prairia Sabbatia
prairie
prairie-dog
prairie-dogging
prairie-doggings
prairie anemone
prairie aster
prairie berry

Literary usage of Pragmatists

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Persistent Problems of Philosophy: An Introduction to Metaphysics by Mary Whiton Calkins (1912)
"1 In this sense we all are, or ought to be, pragmatists; and we unquestionably owe a debt to contemporary pragmatists for laying stress on the non-cognitive ..."

2. English and American Philosophy Since 1800: A Critical Survey by Arthur Kenyon Rogers (1922)
"Other pragmatists. Pearson. Baldwin 1. In view of its short period of existence, the literature of pragmatism, most of it highly controversial, ..."

3. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by John William Cunliffe, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1922)
"It would be partially the psychoanalysts ; and beauty—well, the able to produce any example of pure pragmatists; goodness into the hands of proved to be so ..."

4. Educational Issues in the Kindergarten by Susan Elizabeth Blow (1908)
"... religion will work best in the long run,"1 but the sympathies of pragmatists are with " the view that the universe is ultimately a joint-stock affair. ..."

5. National Missile Defense and Prospects for U.S. edited by Thad Cochran (1997)
"Nevertheless, these pragmatists believe that Russia may be able to shape the future ... The pragmatists seem to occupy an intermediary position between the ..."

6. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1910)
"(3) In an Appendix: "Answer to Various Criticisms," Mr. Schinz begins by exposing the comfortable argument of silence so profusely used by pragmatists. ..."

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