Login
Ideas
Quotes
Lessons
Words
Username
Password
Login
Cancel
Forgot
password?
Search:
Dictionary
All Posts
Search
Search
Store Your Knowledge at the Brain Bank!
Login
/
Register - It's free!
Username
Password
Login
Cancel
Forgot
password?
instrumentalism
Definition
Cancel
Bank This Word!
My Lists
Login to Create a List
Register for Free!
Keep Public?
instrumentalism
noun
(in-stru-men-tal-ism)
a doctrine that ideas are instruments of action and that their usefulness determines their truth
Words Related to
instrumentalism
!
rationalism
,
subjectivism
,
positivism
,
scientism
,
nominalism
,
monism
,
functionalism
,
formalism
,
utopianism
,
essentialism
,
dualism
,
dogmatism
,
reductionism
,
historicism
,
utilitarianism
,
atomism
,
literalism
,
primitivism
,
platonism
,
irrationalism
,
attitudinizing
,
reification
,
pietism
,
supernaturalism
,
archaism
,
dialectics
,
determinist
,
abstractionism
,
medievalism
,
arioso
,
wishfulness
,
hybridity
,
maximalism
,
melodiousness
,
anthropocentrism
,
majoritarianism
,
emersonian
,
charlatanry
,
aestheticism
,
buncombe
,
academicism
,
auteurism
,
westernism
,
monarchism
,
scholasticism
,
quietism
,
plaintiveness
,
bolshevism
,
indirectness
,
casuistry
,
philistinism
,
ingenuousness
,
experimentalism
,
sublimity
,
logical positivism
,
euphony
,
abjection
,
solipsism
,
conventionalism
,
vitalism
,
atavism
,
dilettantism
,
absoluteness
,
commonplaces
,
sentimentalism
,
malthusianism
,
sophistic
,
sophistries
,
teleology
,
purism
,
particularism
,
jacobinism
,
bohemianism
,
telos
,
obscurantism
,
pompousness
,
antinomian
,
cohering
,
irreconcilability
,
ephemerality
,
orientalism
,
ritualism
,
sunniness
,
dirigisme
,
inconsequence
,
immoderation
,
manichaeism
,
unreason
,
poeticism
,
dogmatist
,
apollonian
,
vulgarization
,
syncretism
,
bureaucratism
,
animality
,
indifferentism
,
exclusivism
,
ethnicism
,
clownishness
,
contemporaneity
,
instrumentalism
Examples by Brain Bank Users