Crossword clues for pragmatist
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pragmatist \Prag"ma*tist\, n. One who is pragmatic.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who acts in a practical or straightforward manner; one who is pragmatic; one who values practicality or pragmatism. 2 One who acts in response to particular situations rather than upon abstract ideals; one who is willing to ignore their ideals to accomplish goals. 3 One who belongs to the philosophic school of pragmatism; one who holds that the meaning of beliefs are the actions they entail, and that the truth of those beliefs consist in the actions they entail successfully leading a believer to their goals.
WordNet
n. an adherent of philosophical pragmatism
a person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of her actions
Usage examples of "pragmatist".
As for their view of pragmatists, a succinct summation was first uttered in frustration by Representative Dick Armey of Texas in the late eighties, when Republicans were the long-standing minority in Congress.
Pragmatist Day Oners were going about their business with energetic and ruthless efficiency.
He saw her then as she looked each morning in the car, face scrubbed clean of makeup, the sweetly sad pragmatist of their five hundred days on her way to the university, almost ordinary in her jeans and cloth jacket, ready to spend hours listening to tired astronomers, hungover geographers, talentless poets, trying to find in their listless words some residue of truth, some glint of promise, a fact still empowered by its original energy, something that would bring her a glimpse of possibility beyond that which she knew.
Central Asia, fears they hope to exploit by presenting themselves as sober pragmatists who happen to be Muslims.
His councils held their share of shamans and priests, superstitious babblers and time-servers, but I had supposed that my father was sufficiently the pragmatist not to listen with overmuch attention to their cryptic advice.
Realist and pragmatist though she was, she nevertheless nurtured a blind bit of self-delusion wherein she would turn Booboo around.
He did put together a series of phone calls that got him a lawyer: Jake Kellerman, a pragmatist who said continuances were the smart money, postpone the custody trial until Captain Considine was a grand jury hero.
Those who don't go to Croser will be pushed towards the radicals on the other fringe, that poor fool Armstrong and his Secret Citizen's Army, or the radical Pragmatist Party crowd.
A number of people in the higher levels of Congress and the Directorates were talking about a Pragmatist coup with a lot of Security Arm involvement.
He was a stone-hard pragmatist, a bottom liner, which was why he and his friends used the mat-trans units.
The older and greater in the status, the less awareness of the realities of the modern international community and the greater scorn for pragmatists like Captain Keith Laumer, who'd transferred into the diplomatic service from the Air Force.
Moreover, many American policy makers continued to operate on the assumption that Saddam was a pragmatist who thought more or less like themselves and so would not do anything so rash as to conquer Kuwait.
The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist, and a bad one at that, since he has given no thought to his position.