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Rickert deals with part of the pragmatistic position under the head of what he calls 'Relativismus.'

From Pragmatism by James, William

The possibility of this is involved in the pragmatistic willingness to treat pluralism as a serious hypothesis.

From Pragmatism by James, William

You ought to join the band of "pragmatistic" or "humanistic" philosophers.

From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by James, William

The pragmatistic account of ‘meaning’ and ‘truth,’ shows only how a vicious disjunction between ‘idea’ and ‘object’ may thus be avoided.

From Essays in Radical Empiricism by James, William

To me, as a philosophical student, they are not new; for, as I repeat, I insisted upon them years ago, before the modern pragmatistic controversy began.

From The Sources Of Religious Insight by Royce, Josiah