Sentences with word «pragmatism»

A look at the decisions Obama has made since becoming the nominee — opting out of public financing, reversing course on the domestic surveillance bill, etc. — suggests a real strain of pragmatism in his thinking that further bolsters the «steady hand» argument when it comes to his vice presidential selection.

I think most legal blogs and newsletters reflect their authors» lack of pragmatism in their approach to law.

What it lacks in finesse it more than makes up for with pragmatism, and ultimately buyers will appreciate its daily driver practicality than an inability to shave two seconds off their lap time.

There is hence a need for pragmatism in order to bring power back where things are actually done.

I believe the transfers should be based on pragmatism not the whims and ideals on any single person.

«A triumph of climate pragmatism,» indeed.

In my experience, clients — whether multinationals, small and medium enterprises, individual entrepreneurs or institutional investors — place heavy premium on legal advice rooted in commercial pragmatism as much as in the knowledge of local market trends.

Otherwise the Mirage's shape is dictated by pragmatism.

In addition, Russell's thorough and bitter repudiation of the later Wittgenstein and the «linguistic turn» in Anglo - American philosophy is even more strident than his denunciation of American pragmatism, and (as he himself wryly observed) he became as a result every bit as isolated from the subsequent Anglo - American mainstream as was Whitehead or the most speculative «Continentalist» or committed philosophical pluralist today (cf. BR, pp. 71 - 74).

It is time we said to our leaders that while we don't expect to elect any saints to public office, we have had more than enough of political pragmatism rooted in nothing but the desire to win the next election.

Earlier, we looked at pragmatism about technology in designing high - end mobility solutions for training.

When it comes to fighting attempts at video game legislation, the ESA has traditionally chosen pragmatism over principles.

Not in terms of rejecting both the efficacy and legitimacy of ideological compromise; there's no choice to be made between pragmatism and holding to the faith because the former is a mirage.

Truly passionate about all things tech, Nina combines in - depth knowledge of telecoms regulation with commercial pragmatism, and her sheer energy and enthusiasm for working with fast - paced, high - tech multinational clients.

• The exempting of CDOs from all regulatory scrutiny thanks to the passage of the Commodities Futures Modernization Act of 2000 was another triumph of not pragmatism but ideology.

If this is correct we may hope to expect more pragmatism in fiscal policy over the next few years, rather than allowing a Conservative majority government to spark a determination to reduce the share of government spending and the size of the public sector, regardless of the costs.

He began rather conventionally, writing a dissertation on pragmatism at the University of Virginia and writing about American political thought (an early article was on the theme of demagogy in the Federalist Papers).

At its heart, the CAN approach is one of principled pragmatism, that charts a middle ground between those who say there are no objective standards of equity — that «equity is in the eye of the beholder» — and those who claim a single formula can and should determine each country's commitments to climate action.

Out pragmatism makes us always either modernists or fundamentalists in our method.

Both Dave and Nick talked a lot of a «new politics» today, quite sensibly finding a new language to turn pragmatism into principle.

Left on our own, we are, in most ordinary matters, neither heroically righteous nor heroically evil nor even heroically ambiguous; we simply drift — from at least a theoretical belief in God's overriding sovereignty in our lives, to a working pragmatism which simply assumes that the little decisions are ours to make.

The economy needs pragmatism and lucidity,» he told Le Parisien.

Whereupon Peirce took it upon himself to answer his own question, and in 1878 laid out the lineaments of what his friend and patron William James would call pragmatism.

However, coming from a commercial background, I'm equally passionate about emphasising real world pragmatism.

This new pragmatism doesn't mean there's no lingering guilt.

I've called for pragmatism when we were only gung - ho, but the notion that we have to yield to Everton at home is ridiculous.

The newly elected French President has chosen pragmatism as a way to overcome divergences with the U.S. administration.

Having rejected traditional Philosophy, with a capital «P,» he urges us to embrace pragmatism, with a small «p,» as the «post-philosophical philosophy.»

This is due, I believe, to the postmodern climate of thought, particularly evident in neopragmatic philosophy and deconstructionist literary criticism, and characterized by a new pragmatism, pluralism, meliorism, relativism, and historicism — all congenial to the empirical theology that grew out of earlier American versions of these same modes of thought.

As someone who is not a party member, just a voter (Labour, even this time), I think that an open contest with lots of discussion of principles and not just pragmatism, is necessary.

These recommendations, along with the NIH's regulatory revision, demonstrate that ethical policymaking in this arena is an ongoing process that preserves core bioethical principles such as personal autonomy, human dignity, free scientific inquiry, and administrative pragmatism through open dialogue and transparency.

I'm more concerned about the volume of water in the glass and if it would suffice to quench my thirst... Perhaps this deep rooted cynical pragmatism comes with being an engineer in an industry that is more of a sausage fest than the average meat packing plant?

«The American Abstract Artists group wasn't formed until more than twenty years later... By this time, abstract art in the public imagination had come to be equated with the clean lines and aesthetic pragmatism of the machine - age.

It's mawkish, maybe, but no more mawkish than the «sunny ways» that won our dewy - eyed prime minister the last election — an episode which itself offers a vital lesson in the strategic limits of brutal pragmatism and snark.

Now, I understand that there are some issues with pragmatism here.

Drunk and in stupors are the christiandumbs folds» in - undulations becoming sciatic pragmatisms unworthy of even one toasting for but rather against!

In addition to the negative fact that our Christianity is inevitably shaped by the prevalent values of our culture, strong positive arguments can be made for Christian pragmatism, realism and cost - efficiency.

Just as we almost automatically try to address the problem of natural evil through the amoral pragmatism of technology, they, lacking the scientific knowledge to control nature, had only their moral capacity to say Yes or No to its ambiguities.

Just beneath the happy talk pragmatism of our pop Cartesian experts Tocqueville and Percy hear the howl of existentialism, which is really, as Pascal, explains, an expression of the misery of man without God.

Well, we can't allow pragmatism help us interpret Scripture.

Compelled to confront legislation that pitted principle against pragmatism, the rookie Republican lawmaker endorsed a doomed, combustible measure — the first gay rights bill to reach the floor of either the House or Senate.

«Drawing upon the Cubo - futurist, Constructivist and Suprematist design principles of his native Russia as well as the utilitarian pragmatism of the German Bauhaus, Kozyrev juxtaposes these modernist tropes with a Vermeer - like Dutch interior or the depiction of a ruined bunker in Finland, exploding the images» contextual logic into a postmodern pastiche of historical culture.

An exception is Robert M Page who writes, «Although Wilson's pragmatism led many commentators and associates to regard him as unprincipled, cynical and even untrustworthy, this was not the impression that held sway among ordinary Labour voters.

All are filtered through the spectrum of idealism and embody Joo's noetic experimentations by simultaneously utilizing an underlying pragmatism.

Mou is the most pragmatism football manager ever, and he's not gonna change.

We've all seen huge amounts of pragmatism if you actually bother to look.

In Issues, two environmental scientists from Arizona State University have proposed a new approach to managing whaling that combines economic pragmatism and ethical principles to allow for a limited harvest while better protecting whales.