Sentences with phrase «pragmatists such»

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Some may still harbor hopes that pragmatists in his administration could counterbalance the anti-trade China hawks, but former Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson, Trump's pick for the Secretary of State, should dispel such illusions.

«Scattered throughout these essays are self - affixed labels such as «we anti-representationists,» «we Western liberal intellectuals,» «we partisans of solidarity,» «we pragmatists,» «we new fuzzies,» «us shepherds of Being,» «we enlightened post-Kuhnians,» «we anti-essentialists,» «we moderns,» «we humans,» «we bourgeois liberals,» «we Deweyans,» «we pragmatic Wittgensteinean therapists.»

The pragmatists rightly emphasize the intelligent charting of consequences, but such concepts as satisfaction, adjustment, problem solving, growth, and harmonious interaction do not provide a sufficient basis for judgments of worth.

This is particularly the case with a myth which, with all its other disadvantages is outspokenly pragmatist and propagandist in character, and which ignores the question of truth to such an extent that it no longer exists even in untruth, but in a chilly no - man's - land between God and the devil.

Quite apart from this problematic classification of Anglo - American realists and American pragmatists (cf. GMPT 136 - 80) such conventional associations tend to obscure, rather than elucidate the influence of evolutionist theories on Whitehead's philosophical development, and do nothing to clarify the actual influence on, or to evaluate the compatibility of evolutionary cosmologies with, Whitehead's philosophy.

The Pragmatist version of this tends to see no other intelligibility in such objects than their practical potentialities for us, famously collapsing the «fact — value» distinction.

However, I am not a pragmatist, and I have a problem with such reasoning.

It speaks to Shannon's talents that he can take such an unlikeable character and, by portraying him as a ruthless pragmatist, turn 99 Homes into a more powerful and effective cri de coeur.

Such a brass - tacks perspective would seem to make Forge's pointillist abstractions strange bedfellows with the all - white paintings of the American pragmatist Robert Ryman — both artists approach each new work as tabula rasa, an unpremeditated engagement with the empty surface (in a 1985 interview, Forge cites Monet's claim that he painted «as though he were a blind man who had just recovered his sight»)-- but there is an experiential connection as well.

The «climate pragmatists,» such as Victor, Stern, and myself, argue that the point of Australian climate policy is not to solve the global climate problem, or to solve the problem of emissions from international trade, but rather to achieve politically feasible forward progress on domestic climate policy that can help set the foundation for future global policy (which as you and Victor have pointed out is the only way to deal with leakage, including coal exports).