can someone explain pragmatism to me? im quite young and i dont really know what it means, also english is not my first language
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At its simplest: It bases the accepted truth and facts on how it works ***practically*** rather than in ***theory***.
Let’s take a simple example: The sky’s color in daylight.
In theory, the sky is colorless. There is no colored gas in the atmosphere, except the clouds of water, which are the only thing to have a color.
The pragmatic approach to the color of the sky, is to walk out, look up, and notice it’s blue most of the time, except in the morning and at sunset.
So, what color is the sky? Pragmatism says blue, science says “no color”.
So pragmatism is about taking what is practical and observable, as what truth is.
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