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Pragmatists and ideologues from across the political spectrum were in agreement, alike in their immunity to the images emerging from a land on the cusp of liberation.
Discord and democracy: What we can learn about Cairo from Puccini's 'Tosca' Philip Kennicott 2011
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Pragmatists in the current education debate assume people on the 'other side' are pragmatists as well, and that what we're fighting over boils down to competing strategies and tactics for reform.
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Pragmatists like Rice are in the ascendancy, while Cheney, Bolton and the rest of the neo-cons look for some incident, real or created, to force Bush to pull the trigger on Iran.
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Two points: 1. The evolutionary aspects of Popper seem to pull against his insistence on theories/hypotheses being the kind of entity we deem to be either falsified or not falsified-with no real possibility of any intermediate position: 2. The American Pragmatists addressed evolution from the start.
You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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Pragmatists definitely follow a moral compass and hold strong beliefs and values.
Barbara Coombs Lee: HHS "Conscience" Regulation Still in Place 2009
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The Republican dogmatic manichean cultural warriors ruthlessly purged their Pragmatists with a fervor worthy of Mao years ago.
Obama On Rick Warren Pick: We Have To Be Able To Agree To Disagree 2009
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Pragmatists don't start with a belief in the "Truth" that they then try to realize with action in the world.
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James was hugely influenced by the Italian Pragmatists.
Archive 2009-04-01 enowning 2009
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Pragmatists, after all, always fall short of the targets established by absolutists on the Left or Right, because we don't believe those targets are anything more than motivators to help get something done in the short term.
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Pragmatists will say such naive posturing gets you nowhere.
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