pragmaticistn.

1905 C. S. Peirce in Monist 15 173 In representing the pragmaticist as making rational meaning to consist in an experiment, (which you speak of as an event in the past,) you strikingly fail to catch his attitude of mind.

1946 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 7 347 This definition of ‘truth’ does make it depend on what would be everybody's opinion in the long run if everybody were to adopt the pragmaticist's method of discussing, investigating and clarifying the ideas of truth and reality.

1976 M. A. Kaplan Justice, Human Nature & Polit. Obligation ii. 101 Unlike classical philosophy, however, the standards for this process are objective in Dewey's sense of public communicability and in Peirce's sense of the pragmaticist test.

1999 Jrnl. Amer. Acad. Relig. 67 698 The emphasis moves..towards Peirce as cultural critic... Local public practice becomes the matrix within which the pragmaticist works to make some sense of..equivocal semiotic systems.

1975 H. Bloom Map of Misreading i. i. 17 To know that we are object as well as subject of the quest is not poetic knowledge, but rather the knowledge of defeat, a knowledge fit for the pragmaticists of communication.

1999 C. Emmott Narr. Comprehension i. 10 Inference-making has, of course, been studied in linguistics within the field of pragmatics, but the pragmaticists have been traditionally occupied with isolated utterances or, at most, pairs of utterances.