PRAGMATISM

noun Date: circa 1864 a practical approach to problems and affairs , an American movement in philosophy founded by C. S. Peirce and William James and marked by the doctrines that the meaning of conceptions is to be sought in their practical bearings, that the function of thought is to guide action, and that truth is preeminently to be tested by the practical consequences of belief, pragmatist adjective or noun pragmatistic adjective