pragmatism Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun (philosophy) the doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge and meaning and value
  2. noun the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth
    realism.

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Prag"ma*tism noun
Definitions
  1. The quality or state of being pragmatic; in literature, the pragmatic, or philosophical, method.
    The narration of this apparently trifling circumstance belongs to the pragmatism of the history. A. Murphy.

Webster 1913