Context: Idealism is a term with several related meanings. It comes via idea from the Greek idein (ἰδεῖν), meaning "to see". The term entered the English language by 1743. In ordinary use, as when speaking of Woodrow Wilson's political idealism, it generally suggests the priority of ideals, principles, values, and goals over concrete realities. Idealists are understood to represent the world as it might or should be, unlike pragmatists, who focus on the world as it presently is. In the arts, similarly, idealism affirms imagination and attempts to realize a mental conception of beauty, a standard of perfection, juxtaposed to aesthetic naturalism and realism.

Question: What does ἰδεῖν mean in English?
Answer: to see

Question: By what year was "idealism" a word in English?
Answer: 1743

Question: Whose worldview contrasts with that of idealists in the ordinary sense of the word?
Answer: pragmatists

Question: What language is ἰδεῖν?
Answer: Greek

Question: When did the Greek word idein mean to see?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Who was president in 1793?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What does the English word idein mean?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Idealists see the world the same way as what other philosophers?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: How do pragmatists view the arts?
Answer: Unanswerable