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noun - a system of pragmatic philosophy that considers idea to be instruments that should guide our actions and their value is measured by their success
A pragmatic theory that ideas are instruments that function as guides of action, their validity being determined by the success of the action.
INSTRUMENTALISM - Instrumentalism is one of a multitude of modern schools of thought created by scientists and philosophers throughout the 20th century. It is named fo...
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Instrumentalism is one of a multitude of modern schools of thought created by scientists and philosophers throughout the 20th century. It is named for its premise that theories are tools or instruments able to identify reliable means-end relations found in experience, but not to identify realities beyond experience. Its premises and practices were most clearly stated by two philosophers, John Dewey (18591952) and Karl Popper (19021994). Independently, they defined the school quite similarly, but their judgments of its premises were irreconcilable. * Dewey was a practitioner of instrumentalism. He held that means-end relations can be discovered by reasoning inductively and deductively about experience. Popper was a critic of the school. He insisted that induction is not scientifically valid, and that realities can be known without experience. These contrary judgments endowed the school with the legacy of confusion and ambiguity described below. * This article gives the definition of instru |