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What does pragmatism mean?

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Noun
  1. The pursuit of practicality over aesthetic qualities; a concentration on facts rather than emotions or ideals.
  2. (politics) The theory that political problems should be met with practical solutions rather than ideological ones.
  3. (philosophy) 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.
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In doing so he echoes the humanist pragmatism of Florentine practical mathematics a century before.
He is a model of moral rectitude, unabashed pragmatism, voluminous machismo and carnal fortification.
It promised ruthless pragmatism about means, but has become dogmatic in its advocacy of the private sector.
Are we to jump to the conclusion, therefore, that they have abandoned the left in the name of pragmatism and realpolitik?
Ah, how the heady idealism of youth is dashed upon the rocks of the pragmatism of adulthood.
Their disillusionment grew with what appeared to be his increasing reliance on intuition rather than pragmatism.

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