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- noun Plural form of
pragmatism .
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If we want a detailed formulation of pragmatism, we must go back to Peirce's original formulation, although we must also be mindful that the differences between the pragmatisms of Peirce and James may be greater than James acknowledged.
Pragmatism Hookway, Christopher 2008
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Peirce's metaphysical writings contain a speculative, idealistic version of pragmatism which he called “pragmaticism” in order to disassociate his phi - losophy from the pragmatisms of William James and
PRAGMATISM PHILIP P. WIENER 1968
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Lovejoy's discriminations was to welcome the fact that there are as many pragmatisms as there are pragmatists, but Schiller's response does not eliminate the internal discrepancies among the ideas of prag - matists.
PRAGMATISM PHILIP P. WIENER 1968
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Although eclipsed by the many pragmatisms of daily life, the theory of Sharism finds basis in neuroscience and its study of the working model of the human brain.
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Politics should be about pragmatisms and values are not about imposing them on others.
WordPress.com News 2008
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Although eclipsed by the many pragmatisms of daily life, the theory of Sharism finds basis in neuroscience and its study of the working model of the human brain.
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He peppers his conversation with crude, pleasurable pragmatisms that ought to win him a wide audience, if he can slip them past the FCC.
Harper's Magazine Wells Tower 2008
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