Sentences with phrase «underlying pragmatism»

Makeover Kingdom is a futuristic tableau that combines humor and fantasy with an underlying pragmatism.

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

That requires two things which belied the «radical empiricism» James thought underlay all pragmatism.

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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.

There is a pragmatism within the new parliamentary party but underlying that patience is a steely resolve to see a new relationship between Britain and the EU: one in which, as Mr Cameron said in his Mansion House speech, powers ebb back to Britain rather than flow away.»

Part intellectual history, part memoir, American Philosophy is an invigorating investigation of American pragmatism and the wisdom that underlies a meaningful life.

Pragmatism, far more than romanticism or mysticism, underlies Downes's perpetual interrogation of his surroundings.