pragmatism

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}, {pragmatism}]
    

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