pragmatist

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• One is a practical optimist, the other a level-headed pragmatist.
• Perhaps this dim-bulb mayor, and the MSM in fawning over Klepto Deb, are confusing pragmatist with pilferer or purloiner or maybe larcenist. Sound Politics: What does "pragmatist" mean?
• Henry, ever the pragmatist, considered the farrago of his brother's recent attempted coup, which had ended in the destruction of the Jacobite clans, to have been the Stuarts' last chance.
• The Iranian voting public put a hardliner and a conservative pragmatist into a run-off election with their ballots on Friday.
• But for all his reputation as a pragmatist, there's a steely and obdurate side to him that comes to the surface every so often.
• Not always smoothly — Peirce himself parted ways with his fellow pragmatist William James, largely over the idea that truth was mutable, that is, what is "true" can become not true and even then true again, depending on the situation. Archive 2008-08-01
• The foxy temptress and swooning beauty of popular imagination was a violent pragmatist for whom death held no chill.
• I am a slightly lazy, time-poor, unpretentious pragmatist. Times, Sunday Times
• On Europe, the UK Independence Party has apparently sunk this strategy because it shows that only the Tories are the sensible pragmatists.
• Pragmatists try to coalesce the quest for truth and the quest for justification by trotting out what Williams labels ‘the indistinguishability argument’.