Sentences with phrase «pragmatic thinking»

Pragmatic thinking when it comes...

Basic pragmatic thought and why other teams» key players get wrapped up in cotton wool when they're looking a bit prone.

Last year the Breakthrough Institute, the pragmatic think tank that's been a thorn in the side of traditional environmentalism since its inception in 2003, published an essay by Peter Kareiva, chief scientist of The Nature Conservancy; Robert Lalasz, TNC's director of science communications; and Michelle Marvier, an ecologist at Santa Clara University.

Not exact matches

We think this deal is a good example of Macron's pragmatic approach to the role France needs to play in bringing Europe closer together.

Yet recent evidence suggests that fixed - income exposure could also benefit from pragmatic, well - thought - out smart - beta processes to portfolio construction.

Others agree with that sentiment, suggesting that Powell is more pragmatic and team oriented than one might think.

Every time they think they've backed her into a corner on the energy file she comes out with a creative and pragmatic solution which has the industry's backing.

As James expected the camping party to get back to the useful business of chopping firewood and cooking supper once he had «assuaged the dispute» by his pragmatic observations, so the application of process thinking in reference to the canonical wars now ravaging American higher education should be the means by which faculty might be led back from endless idle arguments to their real and proper work of designing good courses and teaching them well.

Avoiding the latter would require a profound rehabilitation of a contemplative order of thought and life and a certain primacy of contemplation over action, which are all but unintelligible within our pragmatic culture.

But because all of this is at a rather nebulous level of experience, it seems to many people to be either wishful, romantic thinking or weak by comparison with the tough, pragmatic, hard - nosed realism of action.

You might think me defeatist, but what I'm trying to be is pragmatic.

Philosophy, which was invented (as Horace Kallen pointed out many years ago) because humans wanted the security and constancy of an unshakable corpus of thought, now rises in the name of pragmatic relativism to slay the very needs that gave it life.

This issue is, for Boff, not only a pragmatic one, for instance in the sense of seeking to gain more space for free theological thinking and publishing through the reduction of control by hierarchy.

Palmer ignores this Jamesean strain of pragmatism, because his own thinking was shaped, as he tells us in one of the most powerfully confessional portions of his book, by a different strand of the pragmatic tradition.

Here again one is reminded of Whitehead's analysis of the origin of a hitherto dominant, superficial concept of substance out of the pragmatic arrangement of reality and especially of the explicitly formulated thought that logical simplicity, distinction, and clarity may not be equated with ontological originality and depth (PR 54/69; 162/188).

It helped that Cox chose the newly martyred John F. Kennedy as the model of his new pragmatic, secular mind, for JFK had audaciously attacked old questions of civil rights, poverty, crime (quaintly called at that time «juvenile delinquency»), and welfare with a new vigor, and stirring a whole new generation to new thoughts.

But James gave Royce's idealism a pragmatic twist by pushing Royce to ask not what the source of thought is — the old bogeyman of epistemology — but what purpose thought serves.

But I understand that in opting for what I think is the more pragmatic route, I concede the important ideological struggle.

I think the matter remains somewhat personal and pragmatic.

A very thought - provoking post and many of the feelings you have experienced are familiar to people of conscience, whether religious or other, but a pragmatic way of seeing the other side of the coin is that when you abandon the need to make money, (even just enough to live on), you by default, pass the responsibility for your survival to others.

I can not think of a better way to counteract the stultifying «Whig» theory of history, with its bland assumption that every cause which has won has deserved to win, a kind of pragmatic debasement of the older providential theory.

And in the process, the idea that religion is simply pragmatic, or a spiritual sop for the down - and - out who can not think for themselves, will give way to the understanding of religion as the truth of imagination.

«As a Christian I think this is us being gracious about this issue and also being sensible and pragmatic,» he said.

Directly opposed to this view is the pragmatic theory which regards theoretical activity as an affair of rationalizations, essentially irrelevant to practice; practice is valued both for its own sake and as more directly contributory than thought can be to the welfare of men and the glory of God.

My scientific thinking has been most influenced by the liberal behaviorism of Neal Miller and the psychobiology of Curt Richter — rough - hewn, pragmatic, common - sense approaches.

Selecting Walcott upfront shows that you are one of the forward thinking pragmatic ambitious but most of all possessing footballing intelligence.

I just don't think it's pragmatic to discuss restricting guns because it is a non-starter with so many.

The medium sized club model may be most pragmatic but I don't think that's the vision the club used to sell.

I think the alteration to the Gunners way of playing from tiki - tata to a pragmatic way of playing like Real Madrid are playing happened when we lost the BPL game at home to the Red Devils of Man Utd FC.

Strange to think that this board has spent a couple of years slagging Wenger for being too gung - ho and as soon as we see decent evidence that he is hedging his bets in a much more balanced and pragmatic approach he also gets hung out to dry.

If you think the starting lineup was wrong, then blame the board for signing a pragmatic coach.

I think his approach would of been a bit more pragmatic and although he would of still won I don't think us arsenal fans would of been as entertained by what was a master class performance by the professor.

I never liked their managerial style and I think they have ruin football with their pragmatic style.

I don't think Wenger and his staffs would be able to do that, it is better if they switch to a completely pragmatic style.

I may be having a pragmatic view on this but as I said, I want change, daydreaming about Silent Stan selling because some people protest against him is as good as me hoping to win the lottery... I think I have more chance of winning the lottery XD

its too pragmatic and very wenger - eske and if we were winning i would say anything but we're drawing too much don't you think??

I think this is one of the few definitions that people of different ideologies can agree on, just because it's purely pragmatic and casts no judgement on how the system looks, only how well it works.

I would vote for most PR systems in a referendum, though (to complicate things) I think there is a good principled case for the type of compromise package I advocate, beyond the «it could happen in practice» pragmatic argument.

I think that with Obama there has been obviously a shift away from the kind of aggressive philosophically based approach of the Bush years to a liberal pragmatic one; and of course that is also opposed to what would be called conservative pragmatic approach, what Trevor might label «back to basics».

One alternative I can think of is state socialism, and speaking personally my objections to that are not philosophical but pragmatic.

If it is the case that not intervening would have led to a significant massacre within this week / fortnight, there is a pragmatic lesser evil case for on balance supporting a not very well thought through intervention (the US has clearly not spent a long time doing this), and a stalemate, and then looking to the Arab League to mediate a political settlement over time in which the government can't win by massacre.

I reckon that is almost everybody who is in the park in current politics, perhaps excepting only the «pragmatics», who do not know what they think except that it may be rather dangerous to have any ideological framework at all.

In any case, one would think that CM Arroyo would have been taken up short by the revelation that the majority of her campaign contributions were being paid to her husband, and would have curtailed the practice, if not so much out of embarrassment, then out of pragmatics.

«The reason why we are doing what we are doing is because, we now think we have a credible government with a strong financial team which has a good financial team with good pragmatic solutions for solving the problems we are facing, and they are proving it.»

«I think we have to be very pragmatic and realistic going into this year's budget that as much as we're trying to catch up from what was lost in 2008 and 2009, I don't know if we're going to be able to advance as much as we would like to this year,» McDonald said.

Zaino said the New York battle is the latest between party outsiders who are more liberal (think Barack Obama and Sanders) against establishment figures who are more pragmatic (Clinton, Cuomo), playing out on a state level.

Asked about the opposition to the American Health Care Act from more conservative elements of the House Republican conference on the right - leaning Freedom Caucus, Faso said, «I do think we have to be pragmatic in how we approach this.»

«She's framing it in that way — a very pragmatic sort of sensible campaign message I think.

«She was in the mainstream of thinking in New York,» said Jonathan Lippman, her chief administrative judge and successor as chief judge, «and her view was that the court should speak with one voice, to create consensus around a pragmatic view of what the law should be.»

«I think that while he's working very hard to repair relationships, he's trying to be pragmatic in his approach to get this done for the city.»