The pragmatist philosopher William James suggests that, ultimately, everyone settles at some level of explanation based on one ’ s personal preferences that fit the particular individual's psychological needs.

The pragmatist may go on, as David Hume did on the topic induction, that there is no satisfying alternative to granting this premise.

Haughey was generally seen as coming from the pragmatist wing of the party, and was not believed to have strong opinions on the matter, despite having family links with Derry.

Veblen did graduate work at Johns Hopkins University under Charles Sanders Peirce, the founder of the pragmatist school in philosophy ; he took his Ph. D. in 1884 at Yale University with a dissertation on " Ethical Grounds of a Doctrine of Retribution.

Abbas's reputation as a pragmatist garnered him favor with the West and certain elements of the Palestinian legislature, and pressure was soon brought on Arafat to appoint him prime minister.

The critical thinking philosophical frame traces its roots in analytic philosophy and pragmatist constructivism which dates back over 2, 500 years, as in the Buddha's Teachings: mainly in the kalama sutta and the Abhidharma ; as well as the Greek Socratic tradition in which probing questions were used to determine whether claims to knowledge based on authority could be rationally justified with clarity and logical consistency.

Even though Lewis set out his ideas at length, can be seen as both a late pragmatist and an early analytic philosopher, and had students of the calibre of Brand Blanshard, Nelson Goodman, and Roderick Chisholm, his reputation declined after WWII, and the secondary literature on Lewis during the second half of the 20th century is less than imposing.

I shouldn ’ t like to take my oath on the whole story, but one thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act — that is, that we shall be better, braver, and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we don ’ t know ...” It has been argued variously that this implies Socrates is skeptical regarding knowledge or that he is a pragmatist.

When it comes to the kind of correspondence that might be said to exist between a symbol, a word like " works ", and its object, the springs and catches of the clock on the wall, then the pragmatist recognizes that a more than nominal account of the matter still has a lot more explaining to do.

Weed was also a strong pragmatist ; while he shared the idealist views of most of his fellow Whigs, he never strongly supported any controversial Whig positions lest they prove upsetting to the voters on election day.

" Analytic philosophy, thanks to its concentration on language, was able to defend certain crucial pragmatist theses better than James and Dewey themselves.

Over the years, the party has experienced prolonged internal rivalry, particularly between camps that can be identified as pragmatist on the one hand, and idealist on the other.

Addison Webster Moore ( 30 July 1866 – 25 August 1930 ) was a U. S. pragmatist philosopher.

Having made it clear that idealism depends upon postulates and proceeds hypothetically, Royce defends the necessity of objective reference of our ideas to a universal whole within which they belong, for without these postulates, “ both practical life and the commonest results of theory, from the simplest impressions to the most valuable beliefs, would be for most if not all of us utterly impossible .” ( see The Religious Aspect of Philosophy, p. 324 ) The justification for idealistic postulates is practical ( a point Royce made repeatedly in his maturity, accepting the label of " pragmatist " for himself, to the extent that it embraced practical life as the guide and determiner of the value of philosophical ideas.

As a consequence, the chance of single issue and ideology-based candidates being elected to major office dwindled and so those parties who were successful were pragmatist ones which appealed to multiple constituencies.

As a staunch internationalist and antimilitarist, Hillquit represented the ideological center of the Socialist Party during the years of World War I, which controlled the organization in coalition with the more pragmatist right wing exemplified by such locally-oriented leaders, politicians, and journalists as Victor Berger, Daniel Hoan, John Spargo, and Charles Edward Russell.

Putnam, in Words and Life ( 1994 ) enumerates the ideas in the classical pragmatist tradition, which newer pragmatists find most compelling.

In The Professional Soldier, Janowitz noted during the Vietnam era a prolonged debate in the officer corp " about the legitimacy of strategic objectives and specific military tactics ," which unfolded under two dominant perspectives about the appropriate role of the military in international relations: absolutist and pragmatist.

Jones is generally seen as a pragmatist, steering a middle course between his party's ( predominately southern ) socialists and the language-inspired activists of the party's Anglesey and Gwynedd heartland.

The increasing tensions between the pragmatist Moynier and the idealist Dunant led to Dunant's expulsion, led by Moynier, after Dunant's bankruptcy in 1867.

However the apparently irresolvable mind-body problem is said to be overcome, and bypassed, by the Embodied cognition approach, with its roots in the work of Heidegger, Piaget, Vygotsky, Merleau-Ponty and the pragmatist John Dewey.

Frederick was a pragmatist who dealt with the princes by finding a mutual self-interest.

However, it was not until after the May Fourth Movement in 1919 and the promotion by scholars and intellectuals such as pragmatist reformer Hu Shih, leftist Lu Xun, Chen Duxiu, and leftist Qian Xuantong that vernacular Chinese, or Bai hua, gained widespread importance.

He was succeeded by the pragmatist Fredrik Reinfeldt.

This paper was famously attacked by pragmatist philosopher William James in his " Will to Believe " lecture.

Husseini was considered a pragmatist by journalists.

World War I divided American progressives, pitting an anti-war faction, including Bourne and Jane Addams, against a pro-war faction led by the pragmatist philosopher and educational theorist John Dewey.

A profile of Tester after his 2006 election described his as " truly your grandfather ’ s Democrat — a pro-gun, anti-big-business prairie pragmatist whose life is defined by the treeless patch of hard Montana dirt that has been in the family since 1916.

The idea of cultural pluralism in the United States has its roots in the transcendentalist movement and was developed by pragmatist philosophers such as William James and John Dewey, and later thinkers such as Horace Kallen and Randolph Bourne.

Buchanan's own program, however, differed from these generally empiricist, positivist, or pragmatist movements by stressing what he saw as the need for reforms in the mathematical symbolism employed in modern science.

Vailati's influences and contacts were many and varied, belying the oversimple label often attached to him: " the Italian pragmatist ".

By contrast, Jim Anderton broke away from the Labour Party and was party leader of the New Labour Party and Alliance until left / pragmatist strains broke it apart in 2001 – 02.

Although a survivor and a pragmatist, Amanda yearns for the illusions and comforts she remembers from her days as a fêted Southern belle.

After working as a journalist in various U. S. towns from 1887 – 1898 he studied psychology and philosophy while studying with another prominent pragmatist philosopher, William James.

Bradford, the pragmatist, clashes with Milford, the idealist ; Bradford's wife is Milford's ex-girlfriend, who finds she still has feelings for Milford upon his release from the prison camp ; Denisov appoints Milford's ex-wife, a powerful magistrate ( and General Samanov's mistress ), to serve as Bradford's deputy and assistant in Heartland ; and Kimberly's renewed sense of American pride ultimately affects her relationship with Denisov.

In particular, unlike Mao, who was a pragmatist and politician who learned all his tactics from the Chinese history rather than from the Marxism and Leninism classics, Wang was a zealot of Marxism and Leninism.

The pragmatist camp has generally been made up of younger, secular-educated functionaries while older functionaries who often are graduates from institutes in the Middle East make up the idealist camp.

Janowitz earned a bachelors degree in economics from Washington Square College of New York University ( New York University ), where he studied under Sidney Hook, prominent pragmatist and former student of John Dewey.

For Peirce, the idea of "... endless investigation would tend to bring about scientific belief ..." fits negative pragmatism in that a negative pragmatist would never stop testing.

This pragmatist objection is central to the idea that the Constitution should be seen as a living document.

Interrupting our pragmatist, she held the book up for all of us to see.

This marks Sartre, the intellectual, as a pragmatist, willing to move and shift stance along with events.

She is a pragmatist, seeking the best way to power.

Italian anti-fascist philosopher Benedetto Croce ( 1925 ) concludes Machiavelli is simply a " realist " or " pragmatist " who accurately states that moral values in reality do not greatly affect the decisions that political leaders make.

In America, the most famous pragmatist and self-proclaimed postmodernist was Richard Rorty.

The basic thesis of " embodied mind " is also traceable to the American contextualist or pragmatist tradition, notably John Dewey in such works as Art As Experience.

The pragmatist Charles S. Peirce defines the broad notion of an object as anything that we can think or talk about.

An unfailing pragmatist, he resists the influence of his friends.

Reynolds, a natural pragmatist tried to find a sensible middle ground position and seemed to alienate both liberals and the Church.

She is increasingly recognized as a member of the American pragmatist school of philosophy.

His theology was a variant of John Dewey's pragmatist philosophy.

Kaplan, though typically a pragmatist, started carrying a bug trapped in amber in his pocket for luck.

A pragmatist and a humanist, he established the tradition at Penn Law of the dean as first among equals.