Sugar and Water

I found a video on youtube that is basically an interview of a college psychology teacher and his views on pragmatism.  He makes some good points and uses a few really interesting examples of what it actually means to be pragmatic.  The example he used which stood out to me the most was the sugar dissolving in water example.  The professor, Sidney Morgenbesser, said that pragmatism is the practical affect or outcome of what happens if someone does this.  What happens if someone pours sugar in water?  The sugar dissolves in the water and that is simply what happened.  He is saying that pragmatists will not try and give a deeper meaning on the subject or some sort of pointless explanation of what happened in a different sense that may twists the truth, he is saying that pragmatists look at a a tree being cut down in the rainforest as a tree being cut down in the rainforest.  Not that a tree being cut down in the rainforest is the niches of 1000 organisms being destroyed.  Pragmatists will look at an idea or an action exactly for what they are, nothing more, nothing less; and I found that to be a very good way to define what pragmatism actually is.