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Pragmatist   /prˈægmətɪst/   Listen
Pragmatist

noun
1.
An adherent of philosophical pragmatism.
2.
A person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of her actions.





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"Pragmatist" Quotes from Famous Books



... themselves. That the king can do no wrong was never anything but a legal fiction; and it is a legal fiction still. The doctrine of Divine Right was not a piece of idealism, but rather a piece of realism, a practical way of ruling amid the ruin of humanity; a very pragmatist piece of faith. The religious basis of government was not so much that people put their trust in princes, as that they did not put their trust in any child of man. It was so with all the ugly institutions which disfigure human history. Torture and slavery ...
— What's Wrong With The World • G.K. Chesterton


Words linked to "Pragmatist" :   pragmatism, realist


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