He remarks further, however, that pragmatismhas come to be used also in a wider sense, as signifying a certain theory of truth (pp.
It is in substantial harmony with the pragmatism of Professor James, and I shall not dwell upon it.
To the periodical literature on pragmatism I cannot refer in detail.
Professor Dewey's pragmatism seems to me sufficiently different from the above to merit another title.
We have already spoken of pragmatism as possessing validity as a method, but pragmatism can hardly cherish pretension of being itself a system of religious philosophy.
Not pragmatism but pure metaphysics is the native language of the mind when it moves in the spiritual world.
James' pragmatism frankly relinquishes any absolute standard in favor of relativity.
Even an acute American thinker, after first criticizing pragmatism as a kind of idealistic epistemology, goes on to treat it as a doctrine which regards intelligence as a lubricating oil facilitating the workings of the body.
All this may read like a defense of pragmatism by one concerned to make out for it the best case possible.
And yet these same critics charge pragmatismwith adopting subjective and emotional standards!
There is then a certain danger in the creative pragmatism of this particular time.
Dewey views the new realism, along with pragmatism and 'naturalistic idealism,' as "part and parcel of a general movement of intellectual reconstruction.
Pragmatism was trying to make converts, and the argumentum ad hominem was freely employed.
Further, Activism desires, as do Voluntarism and Pragmatism also, the basing of truth upon a more spontaneous and essential activity.
The savage culture is characterised by the relative absence of pragmatism from the higher generalisations of its knowledge and beliefs.
The aptitude for play, as well as the functioning of idle curiosity, seems peculiarly lively in the young, whose aptitude for sustained pragmatism is at the same time relatively vague and unreliable.
The sway of barbarian pragmatism has, everywhere in the western world, been relatively brief and relatively light; the only exceptions would be found in certain parts of the Mediterranean seaboard.
What the selective consequences of such a protracted regime of pragmatism would be for the temper of the race may be seen in the human flotsam left by the great civilisations of antiquity, such as Egypt, India, and Persia.
Pragmatism is a matter of human needs; and one of the first of human needs is to be something more than a pragmatist.
Extreme pragmatism is just as inhuman as the determinism it so powerfully attacks.
It is hardly to be wondered at, therefore, that the interpretation ofpragmatism given by James was not popular with persons of a scientific temperament.
The two meanings of pragmatism he recognizes himself, and points out clearly the difference between pragmatism as a method for attaining clearness in our ideas and pragmatism as a theory of the truth or falsity of those ideas.
But isn't Pragmatism a perfectly beastly word, George?
It is this doctrine that gives to pragmatism its paradoxical, some have even said its grotesque, character.
In pragmatism we met a new principle, the proposal to regard truth as a value.
It has been claimed that this philosophy is only a form of pragmatism, but it is not a theory of truth, and it has this essential difference from pragmatism that it is the intellect and not truth that is a utility.
I have so far considered pragmatism rather as a criticism than as a doctrine.
Pragmatism therefore rejects the logical criterion of truth because it is purely formal and therefore useless.
Pragmatism therefore rejects both the views that we have examined--the theory that truth is a correspondence of the idea with its object, and the theory that it is the logical coherence and consistency of the idea itself.
On the other hand, pragmatismoffers a test by which we can discriminate between true and false--namely, the method of judging conceptions by their practical consequences.
Indeed, if pragmatism be defined as the assertion that "the meaning of any proposition can always be brought down to some particular consequence in our future practical experience, .
Radical empiricism and pragmatism have so many misunderstandings to suffer from, that it seems my duty not to let this one go any farther, uncorrected.
Thus while pragmatism and radical empiricism do not differ essentially when regarded as methods, they are independent when regarded as doctrines.
In this sense 'radical empiricism' and pragmatism are closely allied.
They crowd the collateral satisfactions out of house and home, he thinks, and pragmatism has to go into bankruptcy if she recognizes them at all.
The present volume not only presents pragmatism in this light; but adds similar accounts of the other dualities mentioned above.
When thus generalized, 'radical empiricism' is not only a theory of knowledge comprising pragmatism as a special chapter, but a metaphysic as well.
Mr. Schiller seems to prefer 'it'; but he too makes much play with pragmatism as an entity.
What is true in Pragmatism is of the essence of Rationalism.
Pragmatism and French Voluntarism with Special Reference to the Notion of Truth in the Development of Philosophy from Maine de Biran to Bergson.
Pragmatism and Idealism in the Philosophy of Bergson," pp.
Miss Stebbing in herPragmatism and French Voluntarism.
He was told that pragmatism was a method, and felt obliged to pretend that this enlightened him.
Sharon Whipple, the Philistine, never quite knew whether pragmatism was approved or condemned by Schilsky, and once he asked the dark-faced young man what it meant.
This was the chief point of agreement between Pythagoras and the Stoics; and Pragmatism has in modern times attempted to show a way out by a higher sanction of another kind.
It would be better then to follow Pragmatism into the super-conscious, rather than to sink with Hartmann into the sub-conscious.
Pragmatism explains the errors of philosophy and we can learn much from a consideration of its principles.
And if pragmatism claims to be a philosophy in this second sense it ought not to deny that philosophy as a science is possible.
What it seems to be suspicious of in pragmatism is a tendency to seek mediocrity rather than beauty, and a certain humorous opportunism rather than the quiet of an eternal vision.
It is perhaps as a matter of "taste" that pragmatism proves most unsatisfactory to it.
It will be found to anticipate very strikingly pragmatism and various other isms in which philosophy has been proclaiming so loudly of late its own bankruptcy.
No one ever agreed with anyone else in a statement regarding philosophy, and I do not expect you to agree with me in this; but pragmatism seems to me essentially an eclectic system.
If I must say more than this, I would only remark about Pragmatism that I could speak of it with more confidence if its representatives themselves were more agreed as to its precise principles.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pragmatism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
