How To Use Pragmatist In A Sentence
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One is a practical optimist, the other a level-headed pragmatist.
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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?
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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.
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The Iranian voting public put a hardliner and a conservative pragmatist into a run-off election with their ballots on Friday.
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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.
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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
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The foxy temptress and swooning beauty of popular imagination was a violent pragmatist for whom death held no chill.
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I am a slightly lazy, time-poor, unpretentious pragmatist.
Times, Sunday Times
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On Europe, the UK Independence Party has apparently sunk this strategy because it shows that only the Tories are the sensible pragmatists.
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Pragmatists try to coalesce the quest for truth and the quest for justification by trotting out what Williams labels ‘the indistinguishability argument’.
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It was nationalism, quintessence of Chinese culture and pragmatistic thought that led him to the idea of calendar reform.
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For a nation of pragmatists this seems like an exercise in judicial nitpicking.
Times, Sunday Times
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To his supporters, Rawlings remains an incorruptible savior and pragmatist who kept the country from plunging into chaos.
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The Clinton gang, blinkered by their pragmatist outlook and policies, should not protest too much, for the altruist-pragmatist policies "dramatized" in "Path" also reflect those same policies as practiced by President George Bush's administration in his failing "war on terrorism.
The Rule of Reason
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To the pragmatist the realist is hoping for something unattainable: in this case a foundation outside our ethics for our ethics to stand on.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The fact/value "dichotomy" is to be specifically attributed to Putnam, and "classical pragmatists".
Demarcation, Demarcation, ….
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The real idealist is a pragmatist and an economist.
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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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Johnson says that it's all about the results of what he called "cost-benefit analysis" and, ever the pragmatist, he says that if it's not working, change it.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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This had prompted a backlash coalition, ranging from those Dutch uncles aghast at his moral reprehensibility; through those amateur psychologists gauging that he had just too many character flaws to be depended upon for the pressures of high office; down to the pragmatists who merely doubted his abilities at summits and treaties, given the lack of tact and diplomacy witnessed during the campaign.
Confessional
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Instead he's a seat-of-the-pants American pragmatist, trying to make things work, lead his team to victory, by muddling through.
Majesty at Royal Melbourne
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To the pragmatist the realist is hoping for something unattainable: in this case a foundation outside our ethics for our ethics to stand on.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Incidentally, it may be remarked that the Pragmatist, in common with the Sensist, this time, fails to distinguish between a percept, which is particular and contingent, and an idea or concept, which is universal and necessary.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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The pragmatist had a habit of mislaying essential objects: cameras, tickets, notes, on one never-to-be-forgotten occasion a passport.
LOADED QUESTIONS
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If he were an avowed pragmatist with a disinclination to moralise, that would be another matter.
Times, Sunday Times
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Actually, there are far, far more filthy anarchy-ist ideologues than there are anarch pragmatists.
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She rose to power by being a political pragmatist who took advantage of every opportunity that presented itself.
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She rose to power by being a political pragmatist who took advantage of every opportunity that presented itself.
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Daley is widely regarded as a business-friendly, pragmatist; he told the New York Times last year that the Administration had "miscalculated" on health care because the country was, at its roots, "center left" not "left".
What the Bill Daley hire tells us about the White House
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Without pragmatists, idealists have no idea how to get there.
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He was a consummate pragmatist, but he was guided by fixed views.
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Since then he has shown every sign of being a pragmatist, an adroit politician and a very hard worker.
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The pragmatist is more flexible, recognising that exceptions do arise and must be practically catered for.
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She was more of a pragmatist than she cares to admit.
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Pragmatists will continuously be bombarded by the 'grayness' of everything.
Are we having Fund yet?
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But the pragmatists are in a bind.
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Roberts is comfortably on the functionalist (or pragmatist if you prefer) side of that divide.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Mojave Cross Decision (Salazar v. Buono) Handed Down
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And despite her remarkable command of languages, razor-sharp mind and transcendent abilities as a ruler -- "every bit Caesar's equal as a coolheaded, clear-eyed pragmatist" -- it is the libidinous queen who lives on.
Stacy Schiff's new biography of "Cleopatra," reviewed by Maria Arana
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Since then he has shown every sign of being a pragmatist, an adroit politician and a very hard worker.
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Our approach is contextualist, pluralist, and pragmatist, and much more in tune with the nineteenth century US abolitionist movement that inspires the contemporary struggle for animal liberation and that like virtually all other modern social movements for rights, democracy, justice, and liberation had a pluralist character and influential militant component.
Averting the China Syndrome
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Even unscrupulous pragmatists might want to let their pragmatism rein in their deviousness: even today, computer-searchable archived text seems fundamentally not to be the best medium for winning influence by, um, cageyness.
Tax Freedom Redux
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They are modern pragmatists who reject the old nationalist dogma.
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The United States hasn’t shown much deftness in tilting this fight between the two lefts toward pragmatists like Lula.
The Talented Mr. Chávez
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And it may well be that a Court that contains a mix of theoreticians and pragmatists will do better than one that's filled entirely with theoretically or ideologically minded judges.
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The key decider during this period - as in the October Surprise phase - was Ayatollah Khomeini, who agreed with the pragmatists on the need to get as much materiel from the Americans and the Israelis as possible, Ben-Menashe said in an interview this week from his home in Canada.
Undefined
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And the heroes of these films are nearly always pragmatists, the middle ground between the emotionalists and cold rationalists around them.
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From a pragmatist point of view, this looks like regression to the Platonist idea that we have responsibilities not only to our fellow humans, but to something non-human.
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He, along with other pragmatists, feared that it could split his party into moderate and radical factions and undermine its ability to govern.
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Sam Houston, pragmatist, had ordered the Alamo and the coeval dust wallow, San Antonio Breixas, abandoned to Santa Ana's army, which Houston correctly foresaw would overrun the small band of defenders.
Alamo Rag
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Pragmatists, sensing a bottomless well of grubby dishonesty, have called for an amnesty, hoping to encourage names to be named.
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Thomas I am not a "relativist", I am a pragmatist.
Go Pats!
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Having conceded so much to the opposition, he has to work hard to secure a middle-of-the-road position - to avoid drifting either to the Platonist right or to the pragmatist left.
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The key decider during this period -- as in the October Surprise phase -- was Ayatollah Khomeini, who agreed with the pragmatists on the need to get as much materiel from the Americans and the Israelis as possible, Ben-Menashe said in an interview this week from his home in Canada.
Printing: Iran Divided & the 'October Surprise'
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The juristic theory of the state that generated this image was fiercely opposed by pragmatists and pluralists.
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She rose to power by being a political pragmatist who took advantage of every opportunity that presented itself.
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One is a practical optimist, the other a level-headed pragmatist.
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The irony about the ironist is that, rhetorically, the metaphysician has the better game; so who’s the pragmatist, really?
Matthew Yglesias » Richard Rorty
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Judge Posner acknowledges that a pragmatist need not think that pragmatic adjudication is wise.
Balkinization
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Carol Bartz is now in, and she's a pragmatist allied tothat Yahoo's profits have slumped seriously.
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Being efficient pragmatists, we favour the hypothetico-deductive clinical approach.
Times, Sunday Times
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I do not expect anyone to read all of it, but voices of agreement or scorn are always welcome: 1. prudentialism / pragmatism v. constitutional judgment — On the one hand, as Professor Kerr says, empathy can manifest itself because one is a pragmatist, a la Judge Postner, and thus comfortable applying one’s own view of how a case should come out irrespective of the law.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Legal Ambiguity, Empathy, and the Role of Judicial Power:
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While European diplomats hope regime pragmatists might reinject responsibility in the Iranian debate, Ms. Rice's State Department has bolstered Ahmadinejad and his fellow travelers.
Now Bush Is Appeasing Iran
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In 1877-78, Peirce wrote a series of articles for Popular Science Monthly magazine called "Illustrations in the Logic of Science," in which he laid out much of the foundations of Pragmatist philosophy (Peirce would come to prefer the term "pragmaticism," to distinguish his own ideas from what he saw as distortions that crept in as the concepts became popularized).
A good idea at the time
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Although a hard-nosed pragmatist, Waugh was hurt that his batting was not given due credit.
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She rose to power by being a political pragmatist who took advantage of every opportunity that presented itself.
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The second reason why pragmatists have dismissed representationalism has to do with concerns in the theory of knowledge.
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In the battle between ideologues and pragmatists, sometimes one side wins out, at other times the other, and often a compromise is struck.
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Japan's leaders are neither doves nor hawks but pragmatists, for whom economic and military security are equally important.
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Most modern philosophers sympathetic to the pragmatist outlook think that the instrumentalist account of truth is unnecessarily revisionist.
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He is a pragmatist to the last breath and would never have indulged a personal folly, like Bacon did, in appointing a governor.
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The pragmatist knows it better than the idealist. 97 excess A sledge-hammer to crack a nut.
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Brand's new book, "Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto," takes on a number of what he calls environmental "pieties," including opposition to nuclear power.
WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook
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He was a realist, a pragmatist who saw little sense in advocating all-out attack if there were no players to execute it.
