Discussion
Pragmatism as a School of Philosophy assumes that
Answer: B
Pragmatism holds that predictions can be made only in terms of probabilities.
Pragmatists such as Peirce, James and Dewey treat the world as changing and truth as provisional, tested by its consequences in experience. Nothing can be foretold with certainty, so a forecast is only as good as the evidence for it.
Learning through pure trial and error is the connectionist view of Thorndike, whereas pragmatism stresses purposeful problem solving. Fixed universal laws and a stable, unchanging universe belong to idealism and realism, which pragmatism rejects.
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