Pragmatic theory of truth: ‘p is true’ means ‘action in accordance with p leads to satisfactory results’. Source: ‘What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All Values across Time, Place and Theories’ by John McMurtry, Philosophy and World Problems, Volume I-III, UNESCO in partnership with Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems: Oxford, 2004-11. 

Pragmatic utility: The value of scientific hypotheses (including laws and theories), all things considered, including the moral, political and economic consequences of anticipated action based on those hypotheses. Source: ‘What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All Values across Time, Place and Theories’ by John McMurtry, Philosophy and World Problems, Volume I-III, UNESCO in partnership with Encyclopedia… Read More

Pragmatism: An a-posteriori theory of knowledge and value whose defining idea is “what works”. Naturalistic, experimentalist, developmental, and instrumentalist in its various forms, it repudiates all dualisms, but like science does not answer the question ‘works for what?’ Source: ‘What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All Values across Time, Place and Theories’ by John McMurtry,… Read More