Synonym: realism. Similar words: pragmatist, pragmatic, dogmatism, rheumatism, fragmentation, dogmatic, enigmatic, stigmatize. Meaning: ['prægmətɪzm] 
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.
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. 
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91 This is the kind of hard-nosed pragmatism that gets results in public health.
92 George Herbert Mead is one of the important representatives of American pragmatism school.
93 Epistemological pragmatism and methodological pragmatism are in correspondence to, respectively, academic criticism and theory construction.
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