Pragmatic

Another man, less pragmatic and more introspective than Roland, might have asked (to himself, if not right out loud), Why this one?

Ser Kevan had always been solid, stolid, pragmatic; he had never heard him speak with such fervor before.

"That may sound like gibberish, but let me explain, be cause it's really a pragmatic question. We have to settle Mother Abagail's place in the community right away, be cause our problem is not just one of `getting on our feet again.' If that was all, we wouldn't really need her in the first place. As we all know there is another problem, that of the man we sometimes call the dark man, or as Glen puts it, the Adversary. My proof for his existence is very simple, and I think most people in Boulder would agree with my reasoning—if they wanted to think of it at all. Here it is: `I dreamed of Mother Abagail and she was; I dreamed of the dark man and therefore he must be, although I have never seen him.' The people here love Mother Abagail, and I love her myself. But we won't get far—in fact, we won't get anywhere—if we don't start off with her approval of what we're doing. "So this early afternoon I went to see the lady and put the question to her directly, with all the bark on it: Will you go along?

In other words, androids equipped with the new Nexus-6 brain unit had from a sort of rough, pragmatic, no-nonsense standpoint evolved beyond a major - but inferior - segment of mankind.

Typically, they are more pragmatic.

I address a pragmatic relationship between belief and what we identify as “real.” All of our judgments carry a heavy burden of ancestral beliefs to which we of the Bene Gesserit tend to be more susceptible than most.

This independency of the clergy of France upon the court of Rome, seems to be principally founded upon the Pragmatic sanction and the Concordat.