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  2. Pragmaticism - Wikipedia

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    "Pragmaticism" 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".

  3. List of philosophies - Wikipedia

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    Absurdism - Academic skepticism - Achintya Bheda Abheda - Action, philosophy of - Actual idealism - Actualism - Advaita Vedanta - Aesthetic Realism - Aesthetics - African philosophy - Afrocentrism - Agential realism - Agnosticism - Agnostic theism - Ajātivāda - Ājīvika - Ajñana - Alexandrian school - Alexandrists - Ambedkarism - American philosophy - Analytical Thomism - Analytic ...

  4. Pragmatism - Wikipedia

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    Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that views language and thought as tools for prediction, problem solving, and action, rather than describing, representing, or mirroring reality. Pragmatists contend that most philosophical topics—such as the nature of knowledge, language, concepts, meaning, belief, and science—are best viewed in ...

  5. Pragmatic theory of truth - Wikipedia

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    First, due originally to Bertrand Russell (1907) in a discussion of James's theory [citation needed], is that pragmatism mixes up the notion of truth with epistemology. Pragmatism describes an indicator or a sign of truth. It really cannot be regarded as a theory of the meaning of the word "true".

  6. Empiricism - Wikipedia

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    Empiricists argue that empiricism is a more reliable method of finding the truth than purely using logical reasoning, because humans have cognitive biases and limitations which lead to errors of judgement. [2] Empiricism emphasizes the central role of empirical evidence in the formation of ideas, rather than innate ideas or traditions. [3]

  7. Willard Van Orman Quine - Wikipedia

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    His major writings include the papers "On What There Is" (1948), which elucidated Bertrand Russell's theory of descriptions and contains Quine's famous dictum of ontological commitment, "To be is to be the value of a variable", and "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" (1951), which attacked the traditional analytic-synthetic distinction and reductionism ...

  8. Occam's razor - Wikipedia

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    It is also known as the principle of parsimony or the law of parsimony (Latin: lex parsimoniae). Attributed to William of Ockham , a 14th-century English philosopher and theologian , it is frequently cited as Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem , which translates as "Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity", [ 1 ] [ 2 ...

  9. Two Dogmas of Empiricism - Wikipedia

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    "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" is a paper by analytic philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine published in 1951. According to University of Sydney professor of philosophy Peter Godfrey-Smith , this "paper [is] sometimes regarded as the most important in all of twentieth-century philosophy ". [ 1 ]