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It is appropriate to stress the strong pragmatic influence on working methods as they affected the design of the Encyclopedia in its present form. As in any design problem there were constraints on resources and in this case, due to the restricted level of editorial funding, they were very tight for a project of this scope. The detailed procedures were continually reviewed and modified to achieve a satisfactory final result with the most efficient use of resources. ...
출처: www.uia.be/encyclopedia/encycom_bodies.php
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A view put forward at the turn of the 19th/20th century, that only those issues that would make a difference should be debated - if it won't make a difference either way, why even bother considering it? William James was a famous proponent.
출처: www.elliotcross.com/glossary.html
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A movement consisting of varying but associated theories, originally developed by Charles S. Peirce and William James and distinguished by the doctrine that the meaning of an idea or a proposition lies in its observable practical consequences.
출처: www.strongatheism.net/intro/lexicon/
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A term, first used by CS Peirce in 1878, describing a doctrine that determines value through the test of consequences or utility. The pragmatist insists that no questions are significant unless the results of answering them in one way rather than another have practical consequences. The pragmatists' world is pluralistic, attentive to context, relativistic about truth and value, devoid of metaphysical concerns except as they have practical consequences. ...
출처: www.english.uga.edu/~msmith/1102_literary_terms.ht...
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