Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pragmatism"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pragmatism \Prag"ma*tism\, n.
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
pragmatism
n : the doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of
knowledge and meaning and value
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