Pragmatism

Is a philosophical tradition that began in the United States around 1870. Its
origins are often attributed to the philosophers William James, John Dewey, and
Charles Sanders Peirce. Peirce later described it in his pragmatic maxim: "Consider
the practical effects of the objects of your conception. Then, your conception of those
effects is the whole of your conception of the object." The word is derived from the
Greek pragma ("action," or affair"). Also thinking of or dealing with problems in
practical way, rather than by using theory or abstract principle. In Merriam-Webster it
describes as a reasonable and logical way of doing things or of thinking about
problems that is based on dealing with specific situations instead of on ideas and
theories