| The pragmatists argue that the problems are just a matter of competence and happenstance. |
| And the heroes of these films are nearly always pragmatists, the middle ground between the emotionalists and cold rationalists around them. |
| Japan's leaders are neither doves nor hawks but pragmatists, for whom economic and military security are equally important. |
| In the battle between ideologues and pragmatists, sometimes one side wins out, at other times the other, and often a compromise is struck. |
| Unlike France, Britain has preferred men of action, pragmatists, doers rather than thinkers. |
| The second reason why pragmatists have dismissed representationalism has to do with concerns in the theory of knowledge. |
