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To: MeDroogies who wrote (3217)	4/24/2001 12:14:20 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Practicalist vs. pragmatist isn't something I picked up from Ayn Rand, but I mostly read the fiction. Not so much the non-fiction. It seems analogous to terms I use, lumper vs. splitter. Lumpers try to find common themes, splitters try to identify unique qualities. I'm a splitter. Very much a splitter. That's why I don't like Schumpeter, or, rather, why I don't think I'd like Schumpeter. That's also why all the major works on the Great Depression I've read so far disappoint me. Too much theory, not enough fact. Too much editorializing commentary. There are some that are very good, but they don't read like history to me, the way I think history should read. Using your definition, I'm a pragmatist, but that's not the way I would define pragmatism. "Pragmatic" is frequently used to criticise politicians who don't adhere to principles - pragmatic vs. principled. Maybe that's derived in some way from Ayn Rand.