Walsh, a linguistics professor at the University of Sydney, obviously takes great joy in the academic rigour and investigative nature of the research but he is keenly aware that these discoveries have a tangible, pragmatic end.
At the far pragmatic end of the spectrum is the position that the very meaning of belief involves preference.
Thus, it tends towards the pragmatic end of the pragmatic-explanatory continuum, in the sense defined by the extension of the CONSORT statement on pragmatic trials [ 32].
Following Zwarenstein et al.'s [ 23] theoretical continuum of evaluation trials, on which rather "experimental", explanatory efficacy-oriented trials form the one end, and naturalistic, pragmatic effectiveness-oriented trials form the other end, this study tends towards the latter, pragmatic end.
It may be that trials more toward the pragmatic end of the spectrum, which may be more difficult to do in the absence of funding given their typical requirement to be large in scale, may be associated with smaller effect sizes simply because the comparator is often another active intervention.
From a developmental point of view, to take him to Brazil would be no more than a pragmatic dead-end.
They siphon off creative energies to pragmatic ends.
The explanations sought in any particular explanatory situation will draw on these multiple accounts as appropriate for the level of representation adequate to achieve its pragmatic ends.
There are at least three aspects of practical reason relevant to democratic deliberation: pragmatic, ethical, and moral uses of reason are employed with different objects (pragmatic ends, the interpretation of common values, and the just resolution of conflicts) and thus also different forms of validity (Habermas 1993, 1 18).
