Sentences with phrase «pragmatism into»

We've really got to mix some pragmatism into our game in order to get the team functioning for the better.

Not exact matches

Pragmatism may be preventing Bezos from pulling the trigger on long - rumored initiatives such as same - day delivery and a move into brick - and - mortar retail — two projects that remain tremendous financial challenges, even for a company of Amazon's scale and execution prowess.

People's moral and civil rights are nowadays subjected to mundane abuses of Federalism, the father of adoption's secularism and divorcee of theocracy whose many so many autocrats are of the abolitionists within Christendom's creeds of embittered many; now marrying into the servile atheists euphemisms giving rises to the ever damned younger infidels of socially perverse and vulgar demeaning pragmatisms via emotionalized pleasurable natures, leading down the future's committed vile systems of embittered communalisms reaping the awaiting harbingers» coming wraths of despotisms accruals.

To the extent that we Americans can be said to have a philosophy, it is pragmatism, which is less a philosophy than a trick the devil uses to entice philosophy into killing itself.

But very early in the book the pattern which would continue to govern Wieman's appropriation of Whitehead's views is evident: Whitehead's philosophy, particularly his views published prior to Process and Reality, is transformed into American pragmatism.

Each of these rather different versions of pragmatism varied from the rest and, often as not, actually came into logical conflict with some of them.

Russ: «a) in my ongoing conversation w / GOP (which you jumped into), the debate was over whether that was based on pragmatism or an underlying principle.

I do not know whether he would have done this or not, since I believe that with his pragmatism he might have accommodated relativity physics without altering his epistemology, though I can not go into the question here.16 What seems to me clear is that the philosophical issues underlying Hartshorne's criticisms of Peirce can not be settled by theories of physics or the mathematics of continuity.

Translated into social theory by John Dewey and Horace Kallen (James's student), poetry by Wallace Stevens (another James student), social science by George Herbert Mead, semiotics by Charles Morris (a Mead student), and jurisprudence by Oliver Wendell Holmes — not to mention the philosophy of F. C. S. Schiller, Sidney Hook (a Dewey student), C. I. Lewis, W. V. O. Quine (a student of Lewis), and many others up to and beyond Richard Rorty — pragmatism swept through the universities.

Royce labored over the next thirty years to work out the implications of what he called «Absolute pragmatism,» venturing into psychology, logic, and even mathematics in an effort to puzzle out how minds can understand the will and ideas of the Absolute.

He did not want Absolute pragmatism to lapse into the usual caricature of idealism, which made ideas into nothing more than objects of idle contemplation; ideas always contain, at their core, an intention to act.

Had James not cast Royce so thoroughly into his shadow — had American philosophy followed the path of a thinker with his eye on the Absolute rather than that of the shrewder social pragmatism of Dewey — the intellectual history of twentieth - century America might have been different.

Seeking to move beyond the centrist pragmatism of both Blair and Cameron, and attempting to inject into politics a newfound passion and significance with which people can truly engage, this essential work speaks to the needs of diverse people and communities across the country.

It's now tinged by a hint of pragmatism, however, as if Damian Green - the shadow home secretary who is now faced with the practical reality of turning those hundreds of thousands into tens of thousands - contemplates what to do next.

Robbed of their creative outlet, the villagers of Herzog's black fable fly apart into murder, despair, and derangement, and nothing — not prophecy, not fanaticism, not even the right reason of logic and pragmatism — can save them from the dark night encroaching.

For Forman, Milda's parents — a pushy, overprotective mother and an indifferent father, collapsed in front of the television — represent the young lovers projected into the future, as the romantic idealism of youth gives way to the glum pragmatism of middle age.

What may have devolved into a Hollywood - manufactured debacle fueled by quick cuts and bogged down in stylistic visuals with no accompanying substance or meaningful context, is instead an exercise in pragmatism, toxic and beneficial.

Kose turns Yeter into an entrancing mixture of pragmatism and spontaneity.

The movie ultimately merges them in a way that makes sense, combining sincerity and pessimism into a sort of sacrificial pragmatism.

Lake also recently coauthored a terrific report (note the pragmatism baked into the title) called Making School Choice Work.

Lily Boyd was meant to become a faerie doctor, a warden of humans and a keeper of balance, until disbelief and pragmatism led her away from the hidden world and into a mundane life.

«As we talk to our friends and industry colleagues about «doing something indie» with us, there's a shared pragmatism informed by years in the industry that melds with the lingering youthful enthusiasm that got us into games to begin with,» Vanaman writes.

«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.

Pragmatism and compromise are needed to break down climate change into smaller, interconnected problems, where progress can actually be achieved.

In the following post, I briefly develop both aspects of this equation — pragmatism with regard to the scope of the CFSP versus principle with regard to the reach of EU constitutional principles into the CFSP — and I conclude with a brief reflection on the normative issue of whether the Court stays within its role as a judicial body, where I suggest the CJEU's approach fits squarely within its duty to say what the law is.

Knee deep into season 2, a real standout episode, «Pragmatism vs. Idealism,» focused on ethical standards in politics (no, that is not a joke), that provided a rigorous debate on each side.