Actually, it's more or less a summary pragmatism, which is a philosophy that grew out of the American civil war in response to fact that ideas people held stron

Actually, it's more or less a summary pragmatism, which is a philosophy that grew out of the American civil war in response to fact that ideas people held strongly tended to lead to them murdering each other on a large scale. According to pragmatism, the truth of an idea is at least partially determined by the effects of that idea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatism