Pragmatism
Pragmatism, the Greek root word of which means "action," grew out of a turn-of-the-century reaction in American philosophy to Enlightenment conceptions of science, human natur...
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Pragmatism
"Pragmatic" seems to have been used for the first time in the modern Western philosophical tradition by Immanuel Kant (1724–1804); for him, there was some connection wi...
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Pragmatism [addendum]
Not unexpectedly, given that "pragmatism" is not a doctrine but a method (as Charles Sanders Peirce put it), the tradition of classical pragmatism is formidably div...
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Pragmatism
"Pragmatism" was the most influential philosophy in America in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Viewed against the widely diversified intellectual currents that hav...
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MOSCOW, Oct 23 (Reuters) - The opposition victory in
Poland's parliamentary election at the weekend could be the
first step to normalising relations with Moscow, a senior
Russian official was quot...
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Beijing (dpa) - Myanmar's ruling junta has promised a Chinese
envoy that it will take "positive and pragmatic measures" to speed up
its "road map" towards democratic reform,...
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Amsterdam (dpa) - Cross-cultural difference come to the fore in
the month of Ramadan for many Muslims in the Netherlands, but a sense
of humour on both sides combined with t...
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
will slow his self-styled revolution with a dose of pragmatism
but will not veer from his goal of building a socialist state
despite a stunning...
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France's new immigration minister ruled out the possibility of legalizing undocumented immigrants on masse, saying Monday that government policy would be firm and pragmatic.Brice Hortefeux heads th...
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Jerusalem (dpa) - The foreign ministers of Egypt and Jordan
arrived in Israel Wednesday morning for a "historic" visit to discuss
peace on behalf of Arab states.
...
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Dublin (dpa) - Calling it a "sensible and pragmatic approach to
modernising the European Union," the Irish Prime Minister Bertie
Ahern Thursday urged the Irish public to sup...
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Pragmatism
Pragmatism
Pragmatism [addendum]
Russia hopes for "more pragmatic" ties with Poland
