0 the quality of dealing with a problem in a sensible way that suits the conditions that really exist, rather than following fixed theories, ideas, or rules:
1 an approach to problems and situations that is based on practical solutions
It is not, however, the experimentalist impulse of a radicalized pragmatism that stands to blame for the atrocities and absurdities of the twentieth century.
It is argued that domesticated pragmatism, with its emphasis on local rather than global perspective, has led to trivialization and degeneration of self-reflective critique.
The policies of this sovereign nation, as well as its cultural symbols, reflect a pragmatism tinged with a defiance of established political and economic conventions.
Much of twentieth-century philosophy, even if not overtly pragmatist, concedes this insight of pragmatism.
In one extract he had shown his contempt for the political pragmatism espoused by the home rule party.
Flint was motivated by pragmatism rather than ideology in his change of strategy.
Radicalized pragmatism is simply the operational ideology of this practice-challenging practice.
Toward the end of the nineteenth century, pragmatism challenged this division, pointing to numerous interconnections between facts, values, and linguistic and cultural contexts.
