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pragmatism - use in sentences
Preposition: as
- way: He goes on to champion William James's radical empiricist pragmatism as the best way to deal with values.
Converse of object
- see: Why do we not see the regulatory pragmatism applied to alcohol, applied to all drugs?
- apply: Why do we not see the regulatory pragmatism applied to alcohol, applied to all drugs?
- require: You have to struggle to bring justice into being and that requires pragmatism.
- have: Have the commercial pragmatism and understanding to keep the company at the cutting edge of personal care.
- demand: We live in a pluralistic age, and it demands a new pragmatism.
- show: It said the SEC had shown pragmatism in the rules it had adopted and showed it could listen to criticism.
Adjective modifier
- philosophical: He argues that postmodernism is the ally of U.S. philosophical pragmatism.
- political: Ramblers ' demands for access can sometimes seem to get bogged down in legal detail or in political pragmatism.
- American: Mixing American pragmatism with Buddhist philosophy, the goal of Soka education is the lifelong happiness of the learner.
- such: Is such pragmatism too much for today's economists?
- new: We live in a pluralistic age, and it demands a new pragmatism.
- pure: The contemporary esthetic of industrial buildings is generated out of pure pragmatism.
Modifies a noun
- rule: Moral hazard it may be, but pragmatism rules, irrespective of your economics!
Noun used with modifier
- implementation: As a matter of implementation pragmatism, this should be left out of the first prototype, and made a goal for later.
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