Exempel på pragmatist

• At heart, they were pragmatists, not idealists.

• Damon, ever the pragmatist, has a backup plan.

• He identifies with the pragmatists of the suburbs rather than the detached, latte-sipping cosmopolitans.

• Indeed, this is true of all epistemological accounts, whether they be pragmatist or not.

• Much of twentieth-century philosophy, even if not overtly pragmatist, concedes this insight of pragmatism.

• I then consider current debates among curators and distinguish between two main exhibition strategies, one pragmatist, the other purist.

• The rhetoric of anti-iconoclasm and anti-utopianism, deployed by the domesticated pragmatist, wraps itself in the disguise of humanistic scruple and skepticism.

• They maintain that the work of these pragmatists constitutes an original and effective method for understanding and resolving bioethical dilemmas.

• While a pragmatist position has many virtues when it comes to personal belief, it may not be very conducive to empirical science.

• Contextualisation of remains is therefore one of the most important avenues promoted by pragmatists for the creation of feelings of authenticity.

• Table 2 gives an overview of the most important differences between the pragmatist and purist perspectives.

• A pragmatist might argue that results are not too bad (but how do we know?).

• In the pragmatist framework, however, as explained above, experience is both individual and socio-cultural.

• Let me push this line of reasoning yet another step further by giving it a pragmatist twist.

• A similar complaint might be lodged against the pragmatist claim that truth is that which is useful.

• This discourse provides the domesticated pragmatist with a rhetorical shield, concealing the compromises, equivocations, and sheer superstitions that lend appeal to his doctrine.

• The pragmatists stressed the use of the scientific method in all areas of life, and so found common cause with the positivists.

• If so, it is difficult to see a constructive dialogue emerging between theological pragmatists and philosophers of religion, as it currently stands.