instrumentalism
/in-struh-men-tl-iz-uhm/US // ˌɪn strəˈmɛn tlˌɪz əm //UK // (ˌɪnstrəˈmɛntəˌlɪzəm) //
工具主义,工具论,手段主义
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Philosophy.
- : the variety of pragmatism developed by John Dewey, maintaining that the truth of an idea is determined by its success in the active solution of a problem and that the value of ideas is determined by their function in human experience.
Examples
In the logical version of pragmatism termed instrumentalism, action or practice does indeed play a fundamental rle.
Is Instrumentalism only283 philistinism called by a more descriptive name?
This explains why this conception was labeled instrumentalism or pragmatics of verification.
For instrumentalism, however, the alleged dilemma simply does not exist.
On the contrary, instrumentalism is the only theory to which deduction is not a mystery.
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