#instrumentalism
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #instrumentalism from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-18 15:55 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
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measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-18 15:55 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-18 15:55 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 11 public posts (spanning ~11687 hours).
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Why do #instrumentalism/ #experimentalism/ #pragmatism paradoxically get us closer to reality than #realism? The former present themselves as a set of quests for meaning, ever-evolving, whereas the latter presents itself as a quest for fina
Given his stature in philosophy, and for all its apparent incongruence, John #Dewey's "mystic experience" is surprisingly unknown. Yet its conclusion is a thing of serene beauty. He described it to Max Eastman, maybe 60 yrs after the fact,
#Nietzsche's yes-saying #philosophy can be read as a poetic formulation of what later occurred as the universal approach to #instrumentalism in #Dewey's philosophy. The moral disposition resulting from wholly embodying either is the same: C
What “instrumentalism” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediainstrumentalism
- nounIn the philosophy of science, the view that concepts and theories are merely useful instruments whose worth is measured not by whether the concepts and theories are true or false (or correctly depict reality), but how effective they are in explaining and predicting phenomena.
In philosophy of science and in epistemology, instrumentalism is a methodological view that ideas are useful instruments, and that the worth of an idea is based on how effective it is in explaining and predicting natural phenomena. According to instrumentalists, a successful scientific theory reveals nothing known either true or false about nature's unobservable objects, properties or processes. Scientific theory is merely a tool whereby humans predict observations in a particular domain of natu
“Instrumentalism” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#instrumentalism across platforms
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