名詞 pragmatism:

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
   同義詞：realism

prag.ma.tism

n.（名詞）
Philosophy A movement consisting of varying but associated theories, originally developed by Charles S. Peirce and William James and distinguished by the doctrine that the meaning of an idea or a proposition lies in its observable practical consequences.
【哲學(xué)】 實(shí)用主義：由查爾斯·S·皮爾斯及威廉·姆斯所創(chuàng)立的一種由各種不同的但又相互聯(lián)系的理論組成的哲學(xué)運(yùn)動(dòng)，其特點(diǎn)是提出了概念或建議的意義存在于其可觀察到的實(shí)際結(jié)果中的學(xué)說
A practical, matter-of-fact way of approaching or assessing situations or of solving problems.
實(shí)用性，實(shí)用觀點(diǎn)：分析、估計(jì)形勢(shì)或解決問題的實(shí)際的、可行的方法

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prag.matist
n.（名詞）
prag.matis.tic
adj.（形容詞）