Pragmatism (external-world question)
The view that the realism debate over whether there is 'really' a mind-independent world is less important than what works, predicts, and lets us act — dissolving the question as unverifiable rather than answering it.
Sources
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "Pragmatism"
- William James, Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (1907)