pragmatisticadj.

1905 W. James in Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 2 31 If the contrasted tendencies which I thus designate as pragmatistic and rationalistic are not recognized by the reader, perhaps an example will make them more concrete.

1935 Mind 44 225 In the two papers contributed to Popular Science Monthly in 1877 and 1878 Peirce tried to sum up the pragmatistic opinions urged by him at these meetings during the previous six years.

1970 J. J. Shapiro tr. J. Habermas Toward Rational Society v. 68 The successful transposition of technical and strategic recommendations into practice is, according to the pragmatistic model, increasingly dependent on mediation by the public as a political institution.

1998 Portland (Maine) Press Herald (Nexis) 8 Nov. 1 c ‘Divorcing’ the ideological right—his roots of origin—and taking a more pragmatistic stance..will bring him the support of almost 75 percent of the Israeli population.

1907 W. James Pragmatism 281 Concretely he means..just the pragmatistically unified and ameliorated world.

a1914 C. S. Peirce Coll. Papers (1958) VIII. ii. ix. 247 But if this occasion did in actuality not arise, such habit of thought as the conditional proposition might produce would be a nullity pragmatistically and practically.

1961 Proc. Aristotelian Soc. 61 180 Basic concepts,..if chosen pragmatistically, would be like Quinian ‘posits’.

1980 PMLA 95 862/2 The psychiatric training Döblin received was pragmatistically orientated, as his essays on psychology make abundantly clear.