It is not by accident that the philosophy of pragmatism around the turn of the century achieved such wide popularity in the United States. The American temperament was perfect for it, and still is. Pragmatism has a number of facets and can mean various things to various people, but basically it is the doctrine of the utility of truth. Truth and morality float on a sea of human experience. He feels no responsibility to cherish truth for its own sake.
Truth is to use.
Whatever is useful is true for the user, though for someone else it may not be useful, so not true. The truth of any idea is its ability to produce desirable results. If it can show no such results it is false. That is pragmatism stripped of its jargon. Now, since practicality is a marked characteristic of the American people they naturally lean strongly toward the philosophy of utility.