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- In ordinary usage, pragmatism refers to behavior which temporarily sets aside a more minor ideal to achieve some higher ideal.
- A 17th century usage of the term pragmatist has it referring to a person who meddles in the affairs of others, in brief, a busybody (OED).
- In philosophy, the term pragmatism has a number of technical meanings that are only incidentaly related to its ordinary usage. The philosophic school of pragmatism founded by Charles Peirce originated in the U.S. in the 1870s.
See also[]
- Pragmatic maxim
- Pragmatic theory of truth
- Pragmaticism (Peirce's reform movement)
- Pragmatism (Assorted philosophical schools)