| 释义 |
pragˈmaticism rare.
[f. pragmatic + -ism.]
1. = pragmaticalness.
1865tr. Strauss' New Life Jesus II. ii. lxxxi. Its decay as being observed by the disciples on the next [day] and not before, is pedantry and pragmaticism. 1970Bull. Inst. for Study of U.S.S.R. Aug. 17 Wiles also analyses the regimes in China and Cuba, where property relations are laid down by the Party: this, in his view, will inevitably lead to a kind of pragmaticism and finally to a bureaucracy bereft of ideological impetus. 1978J. Updike Coup (1979) vi. 230 The development of a plausible pragmaticism.
2. Philos. The name given by C. S. Peirce to his pragmatic philosophy, esp. to the doctrine that concepts are to be understood in terms of their practical implications.
1905C. S. Peirce in Monist XV. 166 So then, the writer, finding his bantling ‘pragmatism’ so promoted, feels that it is time to kiss his child good-by and relinquish it to its higher destiny; while to serve the precise purpose of expressing the original definition, he begs to announce the birth of the word ‘pragmaticism’, which is ugly enough to be safe from kidnappers. 1934C. Hartshorne et al. Coll. Papers C. S. Peirce V. p. v, Pragmaticism (Peirce's term to indicate his divergencies from other pragmatists) was thus Peirce's way of insisting that abstractions must give an account of themselves. 1946B. Russell in J. Feibleman Introd. Peirce's Philos. p. xv, Peirce's pragmatism (or pragmaticism, as he came to call it) is a very different doctrine from those of James and Schiller and Dewey. 1968E. H. Madden in R. Klibansky Contemp. Philos. II. 33 Peirce's shift..to pragmaticism and the dispositional frequency theory. |