Mechanistic vs Pragmatic - What's the difference?
mechanistic | pragmatic |
Having the impersonal and automatic characteristics of a machine
Predetermined by, or as if by, a mechanism
(philosophy) Having a physical or biological cause
Practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory.
* The sturdy furniture in the student lounge was pragmatic , but unattractive.
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philosophical; dealing with causes, reasons, and effects, rather than with details and circumstances; said of literature.
* Sir W. Hamilton
* M. Arnold
As adjectives the difference between mechanistic and pragmatic
is that mechanistic is having the impersonal and automatic characteristics of a machine while pragmatic is practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory.mechanistic
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Adjective
(en adjective)pragmatic
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Alternative forms
* pragmatick (archaic) * pragmatique (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Nor indeed are these restrictions pragmatic'' in nature: i.e. the ill-formedness of the ''heed''-sentences in (60) is entirely different in kind from the oddity of sentences like:
(61) !That man will eat any car which thinks he?s stupid
which is purely ''pragmatic (i.e. lies in the fact that (61) describes the kind of bizarre situation which just doesn?t happen in the world we are familiar with, where cars don?t think, and people don?t eat cars).
- Pragmatic history.
- Pragmatic poetry.