PRACTICAL

adj. feasible, workable, applicable; useful, efficacious, can be put to use

Pragmatism is a philosophic school that originated in the late nineteenth century with Charles Sanders Peirce, who first stated the pragmatic maxim. It came to fruition in the early twentieth-century philosophies of William James and John Dewey. Most of the thinkers who describe themselves as pragmatists consider practical consequences or real effects to be vital components of both meaning and truth. Other important aspects of pragmatism include anti-Cartesianism, radical empiricism, instrumentalism, anti-realism, verificationism, conceptual relativity, a denial of the fact-value distinction, a high regard for science and evolution, and fallibilism.
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Adjective
1. concerned with actual use or practice; "he is a very practical person"; "the idea had no practical application"; "a practical knowledge of Japanese"; "woodworking is a practical art"
(antonym) impractical
(similar) applicable, applicative, applicatory
(see-also) concrete
(attribute) practicality
2. guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory; "a hardheaded appraisal of our position"; "a hard-nosed labor leader"; "completely practical in his approach to business"; "not ideology but pragmatic politics"
(synonym) hardheaded, hard-nosed, pragmatic
(similar) realistic
3. being actually such in almost every respect; "a practical failure"; "the once elegant temple lay in virtual ruin"
(synonym) virtual(a), practical(a)
(similar) realistic
4. having or put to a practical purpose or use; "practical mathematics"; "practical applications of calculus"
(similar) applied

(a.)
Of or pertaining to practice or action.
  

(a.)
Evincing practice or skill; capable of applying knowledge to some useful end; as, a practical man; a practical mind.
  

(a.)
Derived from practice; as, practical skill.
  

(a.)
Capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in distinction from ideal or theoretical; as, practical chemistry.
  

shi2 shi4 qiu2 shi4
Seeking truth from facts.
To be practical and realistic. To proceed from the actual situation and finding correct solutions to problems.