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+Pragmatics and Semantics
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+Many modern philosophical perspectives are based on semantics. Brandom, for example, focuses on the meaning of words (albeit from a pragmatic point of view).
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+Others take a more comprehensive perspective on pragmatics, such as relevance theory, which attempts to understand the processes of an utterance by a hearer. This approach tends to ignore other aspects of pragmatics, like epistemic discussions on truth.
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+What is pragmatism, exactly?
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+Pragmatism is a philosophical approach that offers a viable alternative to continental philosophy and analytic philosophy. Charles Sanders Peirce conceived the concept, and William James extended it. Later, Josiah Royce developed the philosophy. It had a profound effect on the fields of inquiry from philosophy of theology to philosophy of science, but also on ethics, politics and philosophy of language. The pragmatist tradition continues develop.
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+The pragmatic principle is at the heart of classical pragmatics. It is a principle that clarifies the meaning of hypotheses by examining their 'practical implications', or their implications for the experience of particular situations. This creates a distinct epistemological perspective that is a form of 'inquiry epistemology based on inquiry' and an anti Cartesian explanation of the rules that govern inquiry. The early pragmatists were divided on whether pragmatism was a science-based philosophy that adopted a monism regarding truth (following Peirce) or a broad alethic pluralitism (James &amp