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Optimism vs. Pragmatism — What's the Difference?

Optimism vs. Pragmatism — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Optimism and Pragmatism

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Optimism

Optimism is an attitude reflecting a belief or hope that the outcome of some specific endeavor, or outcomes in general, will be positive, favorable, and desirable. A common idiom used to illustrate optimism versus pessimism is a glass filled with water to the halfway point: an optimist is said to see the glass as half full, while a pessimist sees the glass as half empty.

Pragmatism

Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that considers words and thought as tools and instruments for prediction, problem solving, and action, and rejects the idea that the function of thought is to describe, represent, or mirror reality. Pragmatists contend that most philosophical topics—such as the nature of knowledge, language, concepts, meaning, belief, and science—are all best viewed in terms of their practical uses and successes.

Optimism

A tendency to expect the best possible outcome or dwell on the most hopeful aspects of a situation.

Pragmatism

A pragmatic attitude or policy
Ideology had been tempered with pragmatism

Optimism

The doctrine, asserted by Leibniz, that this world is the best of all possible worlds.
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Pragmatism

An approach that evaluates theories or beliefs in terms of the success of their practical application.

Optimism

The belief that the universe is improving and that good will ultimately triumph over evil.

Pragmatism

(Philosophy) 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 or truth value of an idea or a proposition lies in its observable practical consequences.

Optimism

A tendency to expect the best, or at least, a favourable outcome
I love her youth, her beauty and above all her optimism that everything will turn out fine.

Pragmatism

A practical, matter-of-fact way of approaching or assessing situations or of solving problems.

Optimism

The doctrine that this world is the best of all possible worlds

Pragmatism

The pursuit of practicality over aesthetic qualities; a concentration on facts rather than emotions or ideals.

Optimism

The belief that good will eventually triumph over evil

Pragmatism

(politics) The theory that political problems should be met with practical solutions rather than ideological ones.

Optimism

The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature, being the work of God, is ordered for the best, or that the ordering of things in the universe is such as to produce the highest good.

Pragmatism

(philosophy) The idea that beliefs are identified with the actions of a believer, and the truth of beliefs with success of those actions in securing a believer's goals; the doctrine that ideas must be looked at in terms of their practical effects and consequences.

Optimism

A habitual tendency or a present disposition to take the most hopeful view of future events, and to expect a favorable outcome even when unfavorable outcomes are possible; - opposed to pessimism.

Pragmatism

The habit of interfering in other people's affairs; meddlesomeness.

Optimism

The optimistic feeling that all is going to turn out well

Pragmatism

The quality or state of being pragmatic; in literature, the pragmatic, or philosophical, method.
The narration of this apparently trifling circumstance belongs to the pragmatism of the history.

Optimism

A general disposition to expect the best in all things

Pragmatism

(philosophy) the doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge and meaning and value

Pragmatism

The attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth

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