pragmatic

adj. practical, pertaining to action, of practice

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 practical matters; "a matter-of-fact (or pragmatic) approach to the problem"; "a matter-of-fact account of the trip"
(synonym) matter-of-fact, pragmatical
(similar) practical
2. of or concerning the theory of pragmatism
(synonym) pragmatical
(pertainym) pragmatism
3. 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, practical
(similar) realistic

(n.)
One skilled in affairs.
  

(n.)
A solemn public ordinance or decree.
  

(a.)
Alt. of Pragmatical
  

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