Pragmatism

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pragmatism \Prag"ma*tism\, n.
     The quality or state of being pragmatic; in literature, the
     pragmatic, or philosophical, method.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The narration of this apparently trifling circumstance


           belongs to the pragmatism of the history. --A. Murphy.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pragmatism
       n 1: (philosophy) the doctrine that practical consequences are
            the criteria of knowledge and meaning and value
       2: the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring
          practicality and literal truth [syn: {realism}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  72 Moby Thesaurus words for "pragmatism":
     Marxism, R and D, animalism, atomism, behaviorism,
     commonsense realism, control, control experiment,
     controlled experiment, cut and try, dialectical materialism,
     down-to-earthness, earthiness, earthliness, empiricism,
     epiphenomenalism, experiment, experimental design,
     experimental method, experimental proof, experimentalism,
     experimentation, freedom from illusion, functional design,
     functional furniture, functionalism, hardheadedness,
     historical materialism, hit and miss, hylomorphism, hylotheism,
     hylozoism, lack of feelings, materialism, matter-of-factness,
     mechanism, natural realism, naturalism, new realism,
     noble experiment, physicalism, physicism, positive philosophy,
     positivism, practical-mindedness, practicality, practicalness,
     pragmaticism, rationality, realism, reasonableness,
     representative realism, research and development, rule of thumb,
     saneness, scientism, secularism, sensibleness, sober-mindedness,
     substantialism, temporality, tentative method, tentativeness,
     testing, trial, trial and error, trying, unidealism,
     unromanticalness, unsentimentality, utilitarianism, worldliness