1 She had a reputation for clear thinking and pragmatism.

2 The council has operated much more effectively since pragmatism replaced political dogma.

3 a pioneer of pragmatism.

4 The claims were based on reason, pragmatism and common sense.

5 Mill's influence on pragmatism is also evident.

6 Pragmatism tells a more promising story.

7 Mr Rafsanjani's pragmatism deserves pragmatic acceptance.

8 That pragmatism and resilience inclines this survey to optimism.

9 Strauss' pragmatism has kept the company profitable.

10 Their goals and services are rooted in pragmatism.

11 Pragmatism sought to force philosophers to confront doubt.

12 Such pragmatism has not come easy to liberals.

13 Pragmatism does not rule out any theory about what makes a community better.

14 This is a bold attempt to unite pragmatism and conventionalism.

15 We could continue in this vein, since pragmatism is a rich theory of knowledge and Quine an electrifying exponent of it.

16 This was especially the case when pragmatism was conjoined to a legal positivist outlook.

17 Pragmatism is essentially a method of settling philosophical disputes by tracing their practical consequences.

18 The philosophers of pragmatism resisted the idea that experience could be frozen at a particular moment in time and analysed in chunks.

19 The price of this pragmatism has been to disappoint those who expected radical changes after Independence.

20 If this was pragmatism, it was of a positively mystical kind.

21 In short, leaders attempt to bridge the gap between idealism and pragmatism.

22 Indeed, they have been embarrassed by them, having so internalized the epistemological criteria of positivism, empiricism and pragmatism.

23 These characteristic ideas of functionalism are found running throughout the theories of sociological positivism, evolutionary social theories, and pragmatism.

24 He never shifted from his brand of socialism, a commitment to more equal distribution, combined with plenty of pragmatism.

25 The pendulum has swung from silly dreaming to grinding pragmatism.

26 Labour's campaign in the weeks leading to municipal elections bore all the traces of populist pragmatism.

27 If it's being run for the short-term, they reckon, that could account for a lot of its recent pragmatism.

28 Speaking as fellow politicians, they instead stressed his vision and his pragmatism.

29 When state department analysts are asked for their opinions, however, pragmatism will probably trump ideology.

30 But they expected the rank and file to act more out of pragmatism than principle when choosing a nominee.

1 She had a reputation for clear thinking and pragmatism.

31 He has preached pragmatism towards Moscow and a cautious approach to economic reform.

32 Whether such pragmatism will continue to thrive among home users is hard to judge.

33 Pragmatism as a conception of law does not stipulate which of these various visions of good community are sound or attractive.

34 Behaviour was subject to the decrees of custom and this led to a strong emphasis on pragmatism and the averting of any confrontation.

35 The new Republicanism is a world away from the old pragmatism of the two senators.

36 His attitude toward society is a guarded, somewhat pessimistic pragmatism.

37 Does the as-if strategy of pragmatism allow a better explanation?

38 Ideals and a vision of education's unrealized potential have to go hand in hand with pragmatism.

39 We should begin our test of pragmatism by pursuing the question raised a moment ago.

40 American pragmatism produces a perchant for examining issues separately.

41 Deng's words meant Maoist dogma and pragmatism was in.

42 In Springfield, Obama underwent a training in the practical politics of pragmatism.

43 The mottos our company sticks to are union, pragmatism, diligence, and aggressiveness.

44 The 1920s is a roaring period prevailed conspicuously by pragmatism, materialism, commercialism, mammonism , hedonism, etc.

45 Deng's words meant Maoist dogma was out and pragmatism was in.

46 Tory distrust of Europe has injected zealotry into what was once a pro-business party famed for its pragmatism.

47 Pragmatism is an experimentalism philosophical school advocating science and actual effects, which does not take religion as the all-important studying object, but does not look down upon it neither.

48 The same pragmatism is reflected in those who study abroad.

49 We pursue the quality together with Sincerity and pragmatism , your requirement is our pursuance.

50 Pragmatism agrees with empiricism in its emphasis on the priority of experience over a priori reasoning.

51 In this book, Dworkin has criticized the legal concept of conventionalism and legal pragmatism and put forward the law as integrity.

52 And because of their self-interested, apolitical pragmatism, they could turn out to be the salvation of the ruling Communist Party — so long as it keeps delivering the economic goods.

53 In the 19th Century, American judicial system was caught in a fix between traditionalism and pragmatism as the society was undergoing changes.

54 A streak of pragmatism, skepticism, and contrariness runs deep in the American character, historians say.

55 It takes a special kind of father to handle his daughter's pregnancy with the kind of good-natured pragmatism on display from Simmons' Mac MacGuff.

56 A hard-nosed pragmatism is generally considered to be China's guiding principle at home and abroad: whatever produces growth in gross domestic product.

57 John Dewey is a very famous American educator and philosopher in pragmatism.

58 In knowledge organization, the generation of theory has moved from an epistemic stance of pragmatism, to empiricism.

59 Entire system has reached the design demand technology index equally on the entire function and function , has had the very good pragmatism.

60 Because of this, Rorty claims reserve Pragmatism and give up Empiricism.

61 The Chinese people as a whole are practically-minded, exhibiting a compulsory (unquenchable, insuppressible ) interest in pragmatism and rationalism.

62 Since its originated, the practice of "Reeling for Kam, pupate into butterflies" entrepreneurial spirit, persist in reform and innovation, pragmatism carefully.

63 It is combination of self - expression and self - restraint of pragmatism and utopianism.

64 For civil servant training, training mode with more focalization, pragmatism, scientific nature and foresight are need to search after.

65 Even at the top level , pragmatism , rather than compassion, dominates.

66 It's easy enough to deride this advice from a vantage point of false pragmatism.

67 The title of Rorty 's next book, Consequences of Pragmatism (1982), said it all.

67 try its best to collect and make good sentences.

68 The Chinese can show the skill and pragmatism to develop it.

69 Benjamin N. Cardozo, a celebrated judge and a foregoer of pragmatism, realized the quite revolution of common law thanks to his judicial wisdom and genius.

70 To an extent this is a dispute between pragmatism and idealism.

71 China has always been a country which regards entity as more important than procedures with the belief in the philosophical theory of pragmatism as seen in the saying that "all's well that ends well."

72 Mr Bush would do well to focus now on pragmatism over ideology.

73 Willard Van Orman Quine was an eminent philosopher transforming the analytic philosophy with the holistic empirism of pragmatism in the contemporary United States.

74 This circuit is characterized by wide band, pragmatism and multifunction.

75 In addition, the author introduced traditional theories on universalism, territorialism and the burgeoning theory on new pragmatism, and made comments on them.

76 He stood on basic pragmatism position to expound self concept with behaviorism viewpoints.

77 With deadening pragmatism, the commission says liberalisation will improve quality and choice and reduce state subsidies.

78 It is the pragmatism and its philosophical and aesthetic by-products that have oriented contemporary Chinese art and culture toward a direction of hybridity .

79 And look at what happened when Mr Gates's pragmatism failed him.

80 It has very close links to industry and characterised by creativity, flexibility, agility, pragmatism and informality.

81 The money worship, hedonism, egoism all there is development with pragmatism in the social each realm.

82 The new eugenics is a mass and pragmatism and its model is medical - genetics.

83 Against this background, the hair has repeatedly praised Khrushchev, who said his "death trap", "more flexible", "a bit of pragmatism.

84 Pragmatism , on the other hand, asks its usual question.

85 This moderate personality has such advantages as pragmatism, practicality and harmony, but it also has some negative elements including reconciliation, conservatism, fogyism and self-preservation.

86 It was a very interesting combination of streetwise pragmatism and philosophy.

87 But underneath her commercialism and pragmatism, she has her principles. Ms.

88 The president of Business Process Industries Association of India, Samir Chopra, says eventually economic pragmatism will prevail, ensuring that outsourcing continues to flourish.

89 Based on criticism, Rorty carried on the transformation to them in the new pragmatism and proposed "non- mirror- philosophy".

90 Rorty, an important figure of new pragmatism, is one of the conscious representatives who launched this philosophical revolution and tried to propose some brand new ideas.

91 This is the kind of hard-nosed pragmatism that gets results in public health.

92 George Herbert Mead is one of the important representatives of American pragmatism school.

93 Epistemological pragmatism and methodological pragmatism are in correspondence to, respectively, academic criticism and theory construction.