Definitions for: Pragmatism

[n] the doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge and meaning and value

Webster (1913) Definition: Prag"ma*tism, n.
The quality or state of being pragmatic; in literature, the
pragmatic, or philosophical, method.

The narration of this apparently trifling circumstance
belongs to the pragmatism of the history. --A. Murphy.

See Also: philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory