Practic vs Pragmatist - What's the difference?
practic | pragmatist |
(archaic) Practical.
*, II.i.4.3:
(obsolete) Cunning, crafty.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xii:
One who acts in a practical or straightforward manner; one who is pragmatic; one who values practicality or pragmatism.
One who acts in response to particular situations rather than upon abstract ideals; one who is willing to ignore their ideals to accomplish goals.
One who belongs to the philosophic school of pragmatism; one who holds that the meaning of beliefs are the actions they entail, and that the truth of those beliefs consist in the actions they entail successfully leading a believer to their goals.
* 2007 , John Lachs and Robert Talisse, American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia , p. 310.
As nouns the difference between practic and pragmatist
is that practic is a person concerned with action or practice, as opposed to one concerned with theory while pragmatist is one who acts in a practical or straightforward manner; one who is pragmatic; one who values practicality or pragmatism.As an adjective practic
is (archaic) practical.practic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- They that intend the practic cure of melancholy, saith Duretus in his notes to Hollerius, set down nine peculiar scopes or ends […].
- she vsed hath the practicke paine / Of this false footman [...].
Derived terms
* practicalExternal links
* *pragmatist
English
Noun
(en noun)- A pragmatist would never plant such a messy tree, but I like its flowers.
- I'm not a thief, I am a pragmatist. I need this bread to feed my family.
- We cannot trust him not to lie for his own gain, he's an opportunist and a pragmatist.
- [S]ome pragmatists (such as William James) took a more pantheist or pandeist approach by rejecting views of God as separate from the world.