pragmatic
pragmatik
definition
adjective
a pragmatic approach to politics
dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations.
example
They are doing the right thing for once, so I'm not going to knock them because their reasons are 'pragmatic' rather than ideological.
However, the spokesperson said the board would take a practical and 'pragmatic' approach to prosecutions.
I know I am recommending a 'pragmatic' rather than a principled stand, but that is what national interest and foreign policy is all about.
The Democrats decided they needed a different, more 'pragmatic' approach in order to win.
He praised the practical and 'pragmatic' approach of the college in developing a curriculum of courses designed to help students get on in the workplace.
Unfortunately, while it is eminently 'pragmatic' , that doesn't mean that it's actually morally right.
As a philosopher, he was known for offering a commonsense, 'pragmatic' approach to those theoretical issues that he knew required clarity.
Some Pascalians propose combining 'pragmatic' and epistemic factors in a two-stage process.
This leaves us with the realists, who come across as sensible, 'pragmatic' moderates.
The whirlwind tour was meant to humanize the low-cost leviathan so often depicted as self-serving and ruthlessly 'pragmatic' .
Thus his apparent liberality on this question rested on 'pragmatic' considerations rather than on principle.
All 'pragmatic' or practical considerations have been set aside: the only question at issue is whether his beliefs about the world are true.
Nationalist fundamentalism as a basis for French policy gave way to 'pragmatic' intergovernmentalism.
The lesson has certainly helped me rethink my politics and become more 'pragmatic' and realistic in terms of our own struggle.
On the contrary, syntax is indispensable for a 'pragmatic' language and pragmatics is indispensable for a syntactic language.
Another aspect to this 'pragmatic' understanding of American federalism is apparent in times of national crisis.
But these 'pragmatic' matters have nothing to do with fundamental determinism.
Would not a semantically empty text, keeping only the 'pragmatic' skeleton of a conventional letter, aptly embody the artificiality of such letters?
This is a programme that any 'pragmatic' centre-right government could be proud of.
This policy was based on two 'pragmatic' considerations, and no guerilla organisation would overlook these.
Twinned to his 'pragmatic' , populist social democracy has been a maddening Trotskyite temperament.
But some 'pragmatic' strategists fear that his voting record in Congress may be a bit too liberal.
He saw the 'pragmatic' account of meaning as a method for clearing up metaphysics and aiding scientific inquiry.
Or maybe he was never as 'pragmatic' as I had given him credit for being.
But the decisions about whether or not to do them would be ruthlessly 'pragmatic' : Would it work?
As I read history, most of the founders were sensible and 'pragmatic' men rather than visionary idealists.
He was highly practical and would come up with 'pragmatic' solutions on various issues.
Certain civil servants were advocating a more 'pragmatic' approach to the situation, however.
All three authors point out that as a composer Stravinsky was very 'pragmatic' .
The contextualist / 'pragmatic' outlook provokes anxieties of its own.
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