Meaning Of The Word Instrumentalism
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Instrumentalism Meaning
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What's The Definition Of Instrumentalism?
instrumentalism in American English
the pragmatic doctrine that ideas are plans for action serving as instruments for adjustment to the environment and that their validity is tested by their effectiveness noun: 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 instrumentalism in British English noun: a system of pragmatic philosophy holding that ideas are instruments, that they should guide our actions and can change the world, and that their value consists not in their truth but in their success |
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