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Bible Dictionaries
Pragmatism
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
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An anti-intellectualist theory of knowledge, making the sole criterion of truth the consequences in satisfying human needs. Thought is primarily purposive; ideas count only for their value in our experience. These values are manifold: intellectual, satisfying the logical demand for consistency and objectivity; emotional, satisfying the fundamental aspirations of our nature; practical, beneficent consequences to action, personal utility, correspondence with sentient experience. All of these are essentially subjective. While William James presents it as a theory of knowledge, and as such it is practically synonomous with Schiller's humanism, it is allied to the metaphysics of pure experience. Its modern influence, at least direct, is negligible.
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Entry for 'Pragmatism'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/p/pragmatism.html. 1910.
