He maintained that his position was one of pragmatism rather than principle. |
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It can not be guaranteed by either rhetoric or philosophy, by rhetorical pragmatism or foundationalist theory. |
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He would seem to be offering a kind of antinomian horology at worst, at best an unctuous pragmatism of local mores. |
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His presumed pragmatism upholds the status quo by ridiculing the relative few who dare to challenge it. |
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She has an air of American pragmatism that complements her relentless determination to succeed and rise above her class. |
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But more times than not, the film can't seem to find the apropos avenue upon which to sell its wares of pragmatism. |
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The Liberal Party has always been a mix of idealism, pragmatism, opportunism and low cunning. |
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Yet lumpish Jane's fairytale romance is left stranded on the roadside by the self-centered pragmatism of robbers on the run. |
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So many of our students today bring intense pragmatism to their choice of courses and majors. |
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The larger theme is how Democrats and Republicans have traded places when it comes to pragmatism. |
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This collection focuses primarily on Peirce's realism, pragmatism, and theism, with attention to his tychism and synechism. |
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Furthermore, unschooled pragmatism tends to set aside questions of due process, or of rights. |
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But practical experience fosters pragmatism and adaptation and there are many agile teams working with offshore and nearshore suppliers. |
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For him economic pragmatism, not artistic virtuosity, was the key to racial uplift. |
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It is this sort of hard-nosed pragmatism that has taken Edinburgh to the brink of history. |
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While his voice was hardly dissenting, it was heavy with cautiousness and pragmatism. |
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The primacy of the practical is what links Aristotle, American pragmatism, Heidegger's hermeneutic phenomenology and environmental philosophy. |
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If, as expected, Labour goes along this path of pragmatism then it is likely to put the swing voter reasonably firmly in the Labour camp. |
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The position Professor Fodor is attacking, which associates reality with true belief, sounds like idealism, not pragmatism. |
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Cancer's perception and intuition combined with Capricorn's pragmatism, organization and ambition will provide an excellent business sense. |
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It's a dire time, and pragmatism beats out idealism in the face of what we're all up against. |
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Viewing knowledge as a tool for enriching experience, pragmatism tends to be pluralistic, experimental, fallibilist, and naturalistic. |
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Until he came to his senses and realized that leftist ideals were not incompatible with pragmatism and general prosperity. |
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A form of pragmatism, it was expounded by an American physicist, Percy Bridgman. |
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This also helps foster inquisitiveness, curiosity, pragmatism in decision making, and creative thinking. |
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Conservatism is about pragmatism and respect for the established order which has formed over many generations. |
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But I was interested in the degree to which his vision was essentially pragmatist, or to be more specific, formalism justified by pragmatism. |
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Fortunately, democratic politics normally are characterized by pragmatism and compromise, not ideology. |
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This is indicative of the sentiment-eschewing pragmatism that has been characteristic of a driven performer. |
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He has handled the situation practically and with pragmatism and common sense. |
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But the party realises that pragmatism rather than dogmatism is required if it is to make headway in a deeply divided polity. |
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In foreign policy, he combined a high degree of pragmatism with nationalism. |
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Since you temper your gut instincts with pragmatism and cool thought, trusting them is usually a safe bet. |
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The peculiar ethic which they have evolved for themselves embraces a perfectly elastic system with lots of emphasis on pragmatism. |
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For a government that prides itself on pragmatism and prudence, this is a policy that astonishes in its fecklessness and recklessness. |
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Such apparent political pragmatism worries many, because of the dangerous precedent it sets. |
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I admire their idealism, but wish it could be tempered with a little pragmatism, and also that their science was more sound. |
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Underpinning his work is a ruthless pragmatism that many a maestro could learn from. |
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Nor does he think that philosophical pragmatism has much to contribute to legal thought. |
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In such formulations, there are striking similarities between Critical Theory and American pragmatism. |
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The primacy of the practical is what links American pragmatism and Heidegger's hermeneutic phenomenology. |
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While love might have something to do with his return to Pumpkin, pragmatism is clearly his motivation for giving up his dreams of empire. |
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Yet habit is the linchpin for the philosophical way of thinking that James called radical empiricism, and later pragmatism. |
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Those dualisms are still deeply ingrained in common sense, which is why pragmatism is so counterintuitive. |
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In doing so he echoes the humanist pragmatism of Florentine practical mathematics a century before. |
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Ah, how the heady idealism of youth is dashed upon the rocks of the pragmatism of adulthood. |
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This pragmatism continues to inform Republicanism today, giving it the debt-laden, welfarist character Sullivan rails against. |
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It promised ruthless pragmatism about means, but has become dogmatic in its advocacy of the private sector. |
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You align yourself with Whig historians, happy to see the victory of the Hanoverian regime as a necessary triumph of progress and pragmatism. |
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To a large extent Jordan's success was due to the pragmatism and political realism of King Abdullah. |
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Are we to jump to the conclusion, therefore, that they have abandoned the left in the name of pragmatism and realpolitik? |
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There is a British resilience and pragmatism that kicks in when something like this happens. |
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He is a model of moral rectitude, unabashed pragmatism, voluminous machismo and carnal fortification. |
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Their disillusionment grew with what appeared to be his increasing reliance on intuition rather than pragmatism. |
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The movement in that college to set up a dictatorship where there was once a JCR sees the dream of student enfranchisement replaced with sheer pragmatism. |
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At the same time, however, he has shown himself capable of pragmatism. |
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Having developed the capacity to play some breathtaking rugby, we have sometimes failed to serve this captivating dish with a side order of pragmatism. |
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He is consistent in the application of his brand of pragmatism. |
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The lord chief justice has used all his skill and pragmatism trying to persuade the government not to take asylum and immigration issues out of the courts. |
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One of the main themes which ran through the interview was a sense of pragmatism which one does not always associate with the poplar perception of left wing firebrands. |
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Emerging in the eighteenth century, political economy drew on the individualism of Hobbes and Locke, the pragmatism of Machiavelli, and the empiricism of Bacon. |
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It also happened that the former Reform party accepted pragmatism and gradualism. |
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Lesley Cormack is resolute in trying to resolve the contradiction between Dee's textual idealism and social pragmatism, to the disadvantage of the idealist text. |
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At one White House meeting in January 2010, the president veered between cold-eyed pragmatism and high-minded idealism. |
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The sheep drovers reveal qualities of pragmatism, self-reliance, independence, mateship and solidarity, in an environment to be mastered and with resources to be exploited. |
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A salty pragmatism runs throughout, and only a modicum of introspection is encouraged. |
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It doesn't hurt that Murdoch is being played by Dench, who achieves that magical balance of beatitude and pragmatism we have come to expect from her. |
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Do you think to some extent, though, he did face a struggle, as indeed possibly many Serbians do, between their sense of pragmatism and their sense of nationalism? |
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At the same time, this focus on pragmatism is a tacit acknowledgment from the president. |
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Is it the pursuit of perfection, a realisation of pragmatism, the search for the divine or perhaps baser instincts which drive us into wanting someone? |
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In addition to caution against repeating the mistakes of their parents, traditionalism and pragmatism also appear to drive this new generation of moms and dads. |
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For 45 minutes last night old faces and new responded to the challenge with a combination of passion and pragmatism that did credit to themselves and to their manager. |
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What plays as depthless violence and bruising circus on screen obscures commercial pragmatism. |
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Power is pandered to and pragmatism becomes the name of the game. |
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His preoccupations caricature Fedor's preoccupation with infinity by reducing what is for Fedor a kind of otherworldly transcendence to the pragmatism of a perpetuum mobile. |
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Rather than indulging in what they regard as navel-gazing they intend to pursue a mindless pragmatism instead, regardless of what many of their members may think. |
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Virgo is an earth sign, which is ruled by pragmatism and logic. |
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So, when it came to the use of violence, as with so much else in his life, Mandela opted for pragmatism over ideology. |
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His personality and his success epitomized the postwar Italian political system, marked by compromise, pragmatism, and an inability to overcome corruption. |
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Let's vote out every Washington leader who has ever betrayed symptoms of reasonableness and pragmatism. |
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The optimistic proponents of a new Latin American economic paradigm point to the increased pragmatism of governments in the region. |
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Signor Papini, the leader of italian pragmatism, grows fairly dithyrambic over the view that it opens, of man's divinely-creative functions. |
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In terms of public policy she favoured pragmatism in dealing with religious matters. |
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After the Civil War, Charles Sanders Peirce and then William James and John Dewey were leaders in the development of pragmatism. |
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Jasanoff describes the concept of a pre-embryo as being coproduced out of a complex mixture of pragmatism, empiricism, and trust in experts. |
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For Ayatollah Khamenei, China is a model to avoid and its journey from defiance to pragmatism a path to resist. |
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Again, I am suspicious of the author's way of disjoining pragmatism from metaphysics. |
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Charles Sanders Peirce was best known for his theory of pragmatism and for his semiotic theory. |
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But the more they speak, the more the two are bound by pragmatism. |
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He has been classed with the philosophic pragmatists, although pragmatism is what he attributed to the law, rather than his personal philosophy. |
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The right person for the job will balance vision with pragmatism. |
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Negotiations can be buttressed by dramatic acts of pragmatism. |
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Makoni... had a reputation as a technocrat who tended toward moderation and pragmatism, but one who was also a fully paid-up member of the Mugabe machine. |
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A conception of praxis as principled pragmatism is articulated, and the commitment to pragmatic antiracisms is contrasted with liberalism's policy of nonracialism. |
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Sirayan pragmatism was obviously the key reason that they showed no desire to make a headlong rush into the new faith, but Candidius blamed the inibs for this recalcitrance. |
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The Importance of Being Earnest is read against the height of British Idealism and the beginning of pragmatism and analytic philosophy during the fin de siecle. |
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The Swede's pragmatism knows no bounds and he would rather give up his personality, shoe lifts and rimless specs than go out on a wild limb the day before a game. |
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