Becoming an instrumentalist, though, did not seem to be in the stars.
A serious female instrumentalist had little chance, unless she could pass as a man.
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The Belgian prime minister, Guy Verhofstadt, wrote a booklet in 2005 called "The United States of Europe"; Luxembourg's prime minister, Jean-Claude Juncker, thinks almost all EU projects should be seen as preparations for political union.Yet it is the second, instrumentalist view that has recently been the dominant one.
Often the use is overtly instrumentalist.
There isn't much literature in this area (yet); however, one kind of impossible worlds fictionalism is proposed by JC Beall 2008: according to Beall, an instrumentalist approach to non-normal worlds can be motivated by the idea that these are worlds where "logical fictions", that is, envisaged logically impossible situations, take place.
The embarrassing question for the actualist who would adopt the proposed instrumentalist view of Kripke semantics is: what distinguishes Kripkean semantics from Tarskian?
To resort to any means necessary to overcome unjust disadvantages makes Rawls' theory too instrumentalist; it puts the non ideal part of his theory in "fatal tension" with its "deontological ideal theory counterpart" (Taylor, 490).
This is a sort of instrumentalist, anti-realist position (Duhem 1985, Machamer 1976).
John Stuart Mill's answer to this objection consists, on the one hand, in an argument for the compatibility between utilitarianism and the protection of liberty rights and, on the other, in an instrumentalist defense of democratic political authority based on the principle of utility.
This semantic commitment contrasts primarily with those of so-called instrumentalist epistemologies of science, which interpret descriptions of unobservables simply as instruments for the prediction of observable phenomena, or for systematizing observation reports.
