pragmatism

How To Use pragmatism In A Sentence

• She had the kind of clear, clean progressive politics that came directly from the heart and the head: she didn't possess an ounce of guile or expediency, the latter sometimes miscalled pragmatism by those who favour power over principle. Archive 2009-08-01
• He is consistent in the application of his brand of pragmatism.
• Pragmatism as a conception of law does not stipulate which of these various visions of good community are sound or attractive.
• Yet lumpish Jane's fairytale romance is left stranded on the roadside by the self-centered pragmatism of robbers on the run.
• The bumper payday was partly a result of pragmatism and caution rather than grand design. Times, Sunday Times
• Second, pragmatism is the thing human society can least afford at this stage in our development. Matthew Yglesias » Bob Corker Blasts GOP Leadership
• The president of Business Process Industries Association of India, Samir Chopra, says eventually economic pragmatism will prevail, ensuring that outsourcing continues to flourish.
• 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.
• While his voice was hardly dissenting, it was heavy with cautiousness and pragmatism.
• ( "How To Make Our Ideas Clear," 1878) But thinking about music in a Peircean way has been largely in the context of semiotics, not logic, or pragmatism, or "pragmaticism. Archive 2008-08-01