practicalism
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- practicalist noun
Etymology
Origin of practicalism
Example Sentences
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Now the principle of practicalism says that that very meaning of the conception of God lies in the differences which must be made in experience if the conception be true.
From Project Gutenberg
It is capitalism, not socialism, said he, "that places science within the framework of practicalism."
From Time Magazine Archive
We must have the church and state in order that we may have their souls, idealism and practicalism.
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Political practicalism is a social soul of which the state should be the embodiment.
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He had besides, the stolidity of the German, and their cool calculating practicalism.
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