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PRAGMATISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth
Synonyms:
pragmatism; realism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("pragmatism" is a kind of...):
practicality (concerned with actual use rather than theoretical possibilities)
Derivation:
pragmatic (concerned with practical matters)
pragmatic (guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory)
pragmatical (concerned with practical matters)
pragmatist (a person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of her actions)
pragmatist (an adherent of philosophical pragmatism)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(philosophy) the doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge and meaning and value
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("pragmatism" is a kind of...):
philosophical doctrine; philosophical theory (a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy)
Domain category:
philosophy (the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pragmatism"):
instrumentalism (a system of pragmatic philosophy that considers idea to be instruments that should guide our actions and their value is measured by their success)
Derivation:
pragmatic; pragmatical (of or concerning the theory of pragmatism)
pragmatist (an adherent of philosophical pragmatism)
