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Pragmatist

noun

An adherent of philosophical pragmatism.

A person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of her actions.

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"Pragmatist" Quotes from Famous Books

... wrong was never anything but a legal fiction; and it is a legal fiction still. The doctrine of Divine Right was not a piece of idealism, but rather a piece of realism, a practical way of ruling amid the ruin of humanity; a very pragmatist piece of faith. The religious basis of government was not so much that people put their trust in princes, as that they did not put their trust in any child of man. It was so with all the ugly institutions which disfigure human history. Torture and slavery were never talked of as good ...

— What's Wrong With The World • G.K. Chesterton

... of the thought-destroying forces of our time would not be complete without some reference to pragmatism; for though I have here used and should everywhere defend the pragmatist method as a preliminary guide to truth, there is an extreme application of it which involves the absence of all truth whatever. My meaning can be put shortly thus. I agree with the pragmatists that apparent objective truth is not the whole matter; that ...

— Orthodoxy • G. K. Chesterton

Words linked to "Pragmatist" : pragmatism, realist