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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "pragmatism" in a sentence

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    pragmatism


    1. Either way, with the pragmatism of a survivor, Cherva immediately threw his strength behind the Preceptor and swore his allegiance


    2. She detested my pragmatism, and I found her eclectic nature hard to control


    3. For that reason, such pragmatism neither limits me nor coerces me to accept as “truth that which is useful”


    4. drops of pragmatism and a teaspoon of dogmatic commitment, would have been the first honest


    5. Pragmatism is an attitude, the attitude of appraising one’s prospects on the


    6. "pragmatism" was developed in the United States (Dewey, 1929) and "practical reason" in


    7. Both the ancient philosophical tradition and modern pragmatism have assumed that


    8. policy of conceptual pragmatism recognizes that those with malevolent agendas may prefer propaganda


    9. Pragmatism and idealism never walk together by the hand, neither in families nor in wars


    10. of ideas” and the philosophy of pragmatism might have found solace in a machine that

    11. and their pragmatism had brought results


    12. Modi’s choice, then, was dictated by strategic pragmatism, not ideological affinity


    13. While Muhammad’s reconciliation with Abu Talib’s refusal of Fakhitah, nay Umm Hani’s, hand for him reflects his pragmatism, his marriage to Khadijah underscores his practicality


    14. moment vanished; intrusive pragmatism took hold of the moment


    15. God forbid, should he make it to it, who can say how boundless our voters’ stupidity could be, then he is bound to make Muhammad bin Tughlaq seem the personification of pragmatism in comparison


    16. The intellectual pragmatism of Rao had seen the imperative need for reforming the style and structure of the Indian economy that Nehru thought it fit to mold in the socialistic pattern


    17. pragmatism or more in shamanism? Or both? He had hoped to be able to expand


    18. He was no longer in pain, the resulting pragmatism of those hours spent drifting


    19. In looking for self-improvement and pragmatism, surely the best time-tested values of marriage should carry forward, while some of the negatives can be jettisoned


    20. ” The principled conservative is guided by realism and pragmatism versus pursuing the same bad public policy again and again and expecting a different result

    21. Pragmatism is based on scarcity; idealism is based upon abundance


    22. Most individuals will suffer scarcity in a society of pragmatism (monergy)


    23. I am thinking out loud about love's material pragmatism; the blinding simplicity of a 696


    24. But behind the confused emotional logic, the lies, as well as the ‘common sense’ pragmatism,


    25. What's this? Eucken? Keats? Pragmatism? O Lord!"


    26. The numbness receded, replaced by pragmatism


    27. The potential consequences if those who’d trusted them discovered they’d been lied to were bad enough to contemplate, but for all the masks Aivah had been forced to assume, all the times she’d had no choice but to dissemble, her position was as driven by moral considerations as by pragmatism


    28. She admired the medieval pragmatism of that hook


    29. Dollop, the spirited landlady of the Tankard in Slaughter Lane, who had often to resist the shallow pragmatism of customers disposed to think that their reports from the outer world were of equal force with what had "come up" in her mind


    30. Sometimes it takes a bit of imagination and creativity with a hint of rational pragmatism

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    Synonyms for "pragmatism"

    pragmatism realism

    "pragmatism" definitions

    (philosophy) the doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge and meaning and value


    the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth