What is the difference between pragmaticism and pragmatic?
pragmaticism | pragmatic | Derived terms |
Pragmaticism has no English definition.
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
Pragmatic is a derived term of pragmaticism.
Pragmaticism is often a misspelling of pragmatic.
Pragmaticism has no English definition.
As an adjective pragmatic is
practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory.pragmaticism
Not English
Pragmaticism has no English definition. It may be misspelled.English words similar to 'pragmaticism':
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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.