In ordinary usage, pragmatism refers to behavior which temporarily sets aside one ideal to pursue a lesser, more achievable ideal.A pre-20th century usage of the term pragmatist has it referring to a person who meddles in the affairs of others, in brief, a
busybody (OED).In
philosophy, the term pragmatism has a number of technical meanings that are only incidentally related to its ordinary usage. The
philosophic school of pragmatism founded by
Charles Peirce originated in the U.S. in the 1870s. Peirce derived the name from
Kantian terminology; however, pragmatism's main popularizer
William James mistakenly promoted the school's name as a derivation from the
Greek word "
pragma."
Pragmatics, along with
semantics and
syntax, make up the three main branches of
linguistics.In 2005,
Bono, the lead singer of
U2, defined pragmatism as "Rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit."
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