pragmaticism

Their songs deal with a range of themes including modern pragmaticism, social injustice, personal struggles, and practical spiritual insights.

Its school motto is "cuil, pragmaticism, diligence and forwardlooking".

The gauzy romanticism of the 1930's was gone, replaced by a brute pragmaticism that often bordered on bitterness.

By that time, Peirce was already distinguishing his own scholastic realist brand of pragmatism as "pragmaticism".

But Peirce did not seize on this fact to enhance his reputation, and even coined the word "pragmaticism" to distinguish his philosophical position.

Peirce's pragmaticism, in the strict sense, is about the conceptual elucidation of conceptions into such meanings - about how to make our ideas clear.

Seen as an example of "nostalgic postmodernism", the film intertwines sentimentality with comedy, and nostalgia with pragmaticism.

Pragmatism (Pragmaticism)

Collected papers: Volume V. Pragmatism and pragmaticism.

Indeed in the Monist article Peirce had said that the coinage "pragmaticism" was intended "to serve the precise purpose of expressing the original definition".

And that says something about a nation whose John Bull stereotype of proud pragmaticism seems challenged by this strain of mysticism questing for alternative meanings.

Peirce's recipe for pragmatic thinking, called both 'pragmatism' and 'pragmaticism', is recapitulated in several versions of the so-called 'pragmatic maxim'.

It is sometimes stated that James' and other philosophers' use of the word pragmatism so dismayed Peirce that he renamed his own variant pragmaticism.

C. S. Peirce's reaction to William James's coinage of "pragmatism" a century ago was to rename his own philosophy "pragmaticism."

Pragmatic theory of truth refers to those accounts, definitions, and theories of the concept truth that distinguish the philosophies of pragmatism and pragmaticism.

The Peirce-Jastrow experiments were conducted as part of Peirce's application of his pragmaticism program to human perception; other studies considered the perception of light, etc.

The instrumentalism of Ernst Mach was criticized by Charles Sanders Peirce, the founder of pragmatism (and later pragmaticism).

The religiousness of Miriam and Mrs. Leivers is very different from the self-improving pragmaticism of Mrs. Morel's Protestantism.

The pragmatic maxim, also known as the maxim of pragmatism or the maxim of pragmaticism, is a maxim of logic formulated by Charles Sanders Peirce.

Peirce, who was indeed "maddeningly precise in his use of language," eventually called his own school of epistemology "pragmaticism," to distinguish it from the "pragmatism" of his colleague William James.

It was also the one-time tax attorney in his natural element, in a dazzling presentation of sanguine pragmaticism, sure-footed tap-dancing and a professed love for all mankind, in particular the kind who can dribble and dunk.

James popularized the term "pragmatism", giving Peirce full credit for its patrimony, but Peirce later demurred from the tangents that the movement was taking, and redubbed what he regarded as the original idea with the name of "pragmaticism".

Whether one chooses to call it "pragmatism" or "pragmaticism"-and Peirce himself was not always consistent about it even after the notorious renaming-his conception of pragmatic philosophy is based on one or another version of the so-called "pragmatic maxim".

That is Peirce's outline of the scientific method of inquiry, as covered in his inquiry methodology, which includes pragmatism or, as he later called it, pragmaticism, the clarification of ideas in terms of their conceivable implications regarding informed practice.

So it would seem that Peirce intended the coinage "pragmaticism" for two distinguishable purposes: (1) protection from literary journals and word-kidnappers, and (2) reference strictly to his own form of pragmatism, as opposed even to other pragmatisms that had not moved him to the new name.