Excerpt from Pragmatic Elements in Kant's Philosophy: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Department of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, (Department of Philosophy) Pragmatism is a new name for Old ways of thinking - some of the old ways. Its mission and its merit consist, then, not in introducing an entirely novel standpoint, but in helping to disentangle the functional, dynamic viewpoint from the remnants of rationalism or intellectualism contained in most philosophical systems, whether they be of the idealistic or the materialistic order. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.