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A pragmatic person tends to prefer incremental improvement, even if it's at odds with their ideological vision of how things should work. Here's a contentious one: Obamacare. Republicans are being idealist and rejecting it because it doesn't align with their view on free market solutions.
A pragmatic person would accept the situation was unfair, and realize $200 is better than nothing. Pragmatism has its drawbacks, as it often ignores the moral impact of a situation. In the example, the pragmatic person let an irresponsible uninsured motorist escape the consequence of their actions, and possibly drive off to hit someone else.
Pragmatism is being “straight to the point” by removing superfluous actions (or words, if we are talking about speaking / writing) that do not contribute to the quality of what you intend to do or say. Example: “I am going to leave, take the car, and go to the store”, can be put into a more pragmatic sentence “I am going to the store ...
practical: relating to what is real rather than to what is possible or imagined / likely to succeed and reasonable to do or use / appropriate or suited for actual use. Pragmatic is more about ideas than something real. Pragmatism is a philosophical movement. You could define pragmatism as: "Solving problems in a practical way."
Pragmatism is doing what will get the best result in the current situation, regardless of moral or ethical problems that might appear. Imagine a small group of young children. For some unexplained reason, if these children are alive after 1 hour, the entire city will blow up. Most people would try to find a way to save the city, by finding the ...
A pragmatic lover is someone who cares about the more useful aspects of a relationship (companionship, status, sex, whatever) a pragmatic lover loves you the same way you love a good service in a restaurant, or the same way many people love the status and looks a lamborghini would get them. For example pragmatic lovers might fool around in ...
The pragmatic or contextual conception of truth is one based on a relationship between a person and statements rather than something that exists independently out there. To wit: Truth is a language-based matter. Things and events aren't true or false. Instead, what we say about them is true or false. Truth is always to be found within a context.
A pragmatic person is a realistic person as opposed to an idealistic person. Generally it's more pragmatic to have a moderate view, but not always. For example, one person might say that slavery is ethical and that white people are superior, while another says that slavery is never ethical and everyone is equal.
a-t-k. •. Pragmatism actually means choosing the logical route of action. It is not a reason to believe things, rather a philosophy to aid one's thinking. Choosing religion is highly illogical and therefore the opposite of a pragmatic choice. It's also not very comforting if you ever really think about it.
Showing more of Clarke, good or bad, would have shifted the focus from the allinances of malevolent actors to a single person. Making ISN and NightWatch the face of the Clarke regime served the story better than having a singular person to focus on. In B5 evil is not a person, it is a system.