pragmatism

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.