OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 26122

pragmatism

/ˈpɹæɡmətɪzəm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
pragmatismo
The pursuit of practicality over aesthetic qualities; a concentration on facts rather than emotions or ideals.
pragmatismo
The idea that beliefs are identified with the actions of a believer, and the truth of beliefs with success of those actions in securing a believer's goals; the doctrine that ideas must be looked at in terms of their practical effects and consequences.
Our conception of these practical consequences is for us the whole of our conception of the object, so far as that conception has positive significance at all. This is the principl…
pragmatismo
The theory that political problems should be met with practical solutions rather than ideological ones.
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