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.

Pragmatism is a philosophic school that originated in the late nineteenth century with Charles Sanders Peirce, who first stated the pragmatic maxim. It came to fruition in the early twentieth-century philosophies of William James and John Dewey. Most of the thinkers who describe themselves as pragmatists consider practical consequences or real effects to be vital components of both meaning and truth. Other important aspects of pragmatism include anti-Cartesianism, radical empiricism, instrumentalism, anti-realism, verificationism, conceptual relativity, a denial of the fact-value distinction, a high regard for science and evolution, and fallibilism.

Pragmatism began enjoying renewed attention from the 1950s on, because of a new school of philosophers who put forth a revised pragmatism that criticized the logical positivism that had dominated philosophy in the United States and Britain since the 1930s, notably in the work of analytic philosophers like W.V.O. Quine and Wilfrid Sellars. Their naturalized epistemology was further developed and widely publicized by Richard Rorty, whose later work grew closer to continental philosophy and is often considered relativistic. Contemporary pragmatism is still divided between those thinkers who work strictly within the analytic tradition, a more relativistic strand in the wake of Rorty and lastly neoclassical pragmatists like Susan Haack who stay closer to the work of Peirce, James and Dewey.

i’m not one of the above, I evaluate myself a realist. A realist observes, and weighs each and all of the info and variables previously forming an opinion which in could become the two effective or unfavorable. If somebody replaced into to question me is the glass a million/2 finished or a million/2 empty, i might ask what’s the glass made up of, whats interior the glass? as an occasion if the respond is the glass is crystal, and the liquid is 12 365 days previous scotch. Then my pal, the glass will perpetually be a million/2 empty. according to threat i’m a pessimist oh nicely.

prag·ma·tist

1. a person who is oriented toward the success or failure of a particular line of action, thought, etc.; a practical person.

2. an advocate or adherent of philosophical pragmatism.

–adjective

3. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of pragmatism.

Someone whos actions are based on the facts and the data and not based on emotions or feelings.

A pragmatic philosopher would tell you “what ever works is right.”