pragmatist
IPA: prˈægmʌtɪst
noun
- 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 is the actions they entail, and that the truth of those beliefs consists in the actions they entail, successfully leading a believer to their goals.
- (politics) An advocate of pragmatism.
- (linguistics) one who studies pragmatics.
adjective
- (politics) Advocating pragmatism.
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Examples of "pragmatist" in Sentences
- At the same time, however, I'm also a pragmatist.
- Rommel was, in essence, a pragmatist and a warrior.
- The real idealist is a pragmatist and an economist.
- She is a pragmatist, seeking the best way to power.
- He's probably the most famous pragmatist in history.
- He was succeeded by the pragmatist Fredrik Reinfeldt.
- Or perhaps he was what the learned call a pragmatist!
- He was a pragmatist in developing his military strategy.
- Being a pragmatist is a statement about means, not ends.
- A pragmatist is one who believes in or engages in pragmatism.
- One of these figures was the famous pragmatist William James.
- The pragmatist paradigm has been gaining in popularity since the 1980s.
- Under his leadership the party has moved from the hard right to the centre right and he is known as a pragmatist rather than an ideologist.
- You do make a good distinction between the squish and what I would call the pragmatist and as opposed to the visionary/idealist or the ideologue.
- The definition of a pragmatist was a person who says, "Tell me how the system works, and I'll try to find a way to work within it to make a profit."
- And I don't know as a pragmatist there's anything we can do, and that's the -- dad is usually legal, mom probably isn't and the kids are of mixed status.
- While Freidland is described as a pragmatist, he probably did not give a second thought to the mercenary activities of Buckingham, Mann, Barlow and Spicer.
- The pragmatist is the mediator between these extremes, someone, like James himself, with "scientific loyalty to facts," but also "the old confidence in human values and the resultant spontaneity, whether of the religious or romantic type" (P, 17).