pragmatism : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: pragmatism	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pragmatism n (philosophy) the doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge and meaning and value the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth Synonym(s): realism, pragmatism
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pragmatism \Prag"matism\, 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.