practicismn.
/ˈpraktᵻsɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈpræktəˌsɪz(ə)m/ 1. Philosophy. A name considered for: the pragmatic philosophy of C. S. Peirce. Cf. pragmaticism n. 2, pragmatism n. 4a. rare.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > pragmatism > [noun] > particular branches of
scopology1718
practicism1903
Jamesian1935
1903 C. S. Peirce Let. 1 Dec. in Values in Universe of Chance (1958) 381 I might have called it ‘practism,’ or ‘practicism’ (praktikós being rather more classical than pragmatikós), but pragmatism is more sonorous.
1916 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 13 710 After saying that some of his friends wished him to call the doctrine practicism or practicalism, he [sc. Peirce] said that..praktisch and pragmatisch were as far apart as the two poles, [etc.].
2. Pragmatism, esp. concern with the practical requirements and consequences of real situations as opposed to theory, speculation, or ideals.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > pragmatism > [noun]
practicalism1898
pragmatism1898
pragmaticism1904
practicism1909
1909 D. Ainslie tr. B. Croce Æsthetic as Sci. of Expression xi. 140 The task of instructing..is no longer merely a theoretical fact, but a theoretical fact become the material for practical action; it is not, therefore, intellectualism, but pedagogism and practicism [It. praticismo].
1916 Amer. Jrnl. Theol. 20 162 Professional schools—their history reveals this—have usually fallen into the extremes of an inherited scholastic ‘bookishness’ or else of a narrow utilitarian practicism.
1979 Yale French Stud. No. 58. 120 The entire real is a realm of action. There follows a sort of generalized ‘practicism’ that offers its foundation, its place, and its meaning to a theory of writing as power.
1997 K. Ajdukiewicz in J. Brzezinski & L. Nowak Idea of University 73 The danger of underrating purely theoretical studies having no obvious practical application does not, fortunately, exist now in this country. What is called narrow practicism has been condemned as an erroneous attitude.
3. Politics. In Communism: a concentration by the worker on practical needs, esp. the conduct of day-to-day work, together with a rejection or ignorance of communist theory.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > communism > [noun] > faults according to communist theory
revisionism1856
practicism1931
objectivism1933
reification1937
tailism1948
practicalism1950
diversionism1955
capitulationism1963
1931 L. M. Kaganovich in J. Stalin et al. Questions conc. Hist. Bolshevism (1932) 18 Combating the separation of practice from theory..is a struggle on two fronts—against commercialism and narrow practicism on the one hand, and against scholasticism and formalism on the other.
1957 R. N. C. Hunt Guide to Communist Jargon xxxv. 121 Hence practicism is the tendency of party members to conduct their day-to-day work without regard to the theory which alone gives that work its justification and significance.
1998 Lat. Amer. Perspectives 25 105 In this context, the reproduction of ‘practicism’ and ‘ignorance’, the rejection of theory in the name of immediate practical necessities, has been incorporated into the ideology of the party and union bureaucracies.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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