Sentences with phrase «pragmatists hold»

Pragmatists hold that the practical course of action is best; they choose the plan that works.

The pragmatists hold that man is the measure of truth and goodness, that ultimately something is worthy because intelligent human beings want it.

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The importance of this novel recommendation for ethics lies in its characteristic ability to moderate between extreme positions: although, against the pragmatists, values are held as eternal, they are not, against the Platonists, degraded by their relation with the finite world.

Philip, on the other hand, is slightly more of a pragmatist, and concerned with what the future holds for their children (ages 13 and 7), who know nothing of their double lives.