Sentences with phrase «style pragmatist»

But the birth of my son has turned me into a style pragmatist.

A self - styled pragmatist, Owen comes from the side of the OMRLP that always took the fighting of elections seriously and is one of four Raving Loonies to have scored over 1000 votes in an election.

Not exact matches

In fact, their fundamental premise that all truth claims are socially constructed is not far removed from that of old - style liberal pragmatists.

Whitehead is as «post-evolutionary» in his thought as were the pragmatists, for example, in theirs.18 That is to say, Whitehead, James, Peirce, and Dewey all presuppose some concept of evolutionary development in their philosophies; indeed, their respective styles of philosophizing would have been inconceivable apart from the prior development of evolutionist theories.

Competing depictions of Mayor de Blasio — that he's an enemy of Bloomberg - style education reform and that he's more of a pragmatist than his anti-Bloomberg rhetoric suggests — have split education reformers into two camps: the fearful and the hopeful.

Both styles have their moments: the purist finding lasting pleasure in those rare moments when the Porsche is flowing free, the pragmatist revelling in the M Roadster with a simple flex of the right foot.

He characterizes the «impure» style as more direct, informal, dramatic, and frank, matching it to pragmatist jurisprudence.