If you dot know what pragmatism is, try reading this stoned. Pragmatism is a school of philosophy that originated with Charles Sanders Peirce (who first stated the pragmatic maxim) and came to fruition in the early twentieth-century philosophies of William James and John Dewey. Most of the thinkers who describe themselves as pragmatists consider practical consequences or real effects to be vital components of both meaning and truth. Other important aspects of pragmatism include a thoroughgoing naturalism and anti-cartesianism, radical empiricism, a combination of metaphysical realism and psychologism sometimes termed instrumentalism, the reconciliation of anti-skepticism and fallibilism and last but not least the primacy of practice.
how can anyone be claimed to have invented what every caveman already knew, that we would still be there if they haddent? there IS a LOT of FAKE pregmatism, generaly as a propiganda mechanism for equally deceptive pseudo-conservatism. anything that doesn't support what is obviously or not so obviously false has to be true, right? WRONG! there is such a thing as a real pregmatism, or more simply, reality. but i somehow seriously doubt it was "invented" by anyone as recently as "the early 20th century". =^^= .../\...
