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What does pragmatism mean?

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  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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There is a British resilience and pragmatism that kicks in when something like this happens.
He is a model of moral rectitude, unabashed pragmatism, voluminous machismo and carnal fortification.
It can not be guaranteed by either rhetoric or philosophy, by rhetorical pragmatism or foundationalist theory.
In doing so he echoes the humanist pragmatism of Florentine practical mathematics a century before.
You align yourself with Whig historians, happy to see the victory of the Hanoverian regime as a necessary triumph of progress and pragmatism.
Ah, how the heady idealism of youth is dashed upon the rocks of the pragmatism of adulthood.

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