Pragmatist
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Pragmatist may refer to:
- A person who subscribes to pragmatismPragmatismPragmatism is a philosophical tradition centered on the linking of practice and theory. It describes a process where theory is extracted from practice, and applied back to practice to form what is called intelligent practice...
, a field of philosophy - A person who subscribes to pragmaticismPragmaticismPragmaticism is a term used by Charles Sanders Peirce for his pragmatic philosophy starting in 1905, in order to distance himself and it from pragmatism, the original name, which had been used in a manner he did not approve of in the "literary journals"...
, Charles Sanders Peirce's post-1905 branch of philosophy