Sentence examples for a pragmatic interpretation from inspiring English sources
Our individual rights must be balanced against the rights of others, which requires a pragmatic interpretation of political philosophies, and some softening of extremist outlooks.
John Dewey, in Human Nature and Conduct (1922) and Theory of Valuation (1939), presented a pragmatic interpretation and tried to break down this distinction between means and ends, though the latter effort was more likely a way of emphasizing the point that many actual things in human life such as health, knowledge, and virtue are good in both senses.
A pragmatic interpretation of social facts in this way encourages us to see globalization as Janus-faced, as an obstacle and as a resource for the realization of democratic ideals.
Patients should know that this advice is based upon a pragmatic interpretation of published data rather than clinical trial data.
A pragmatic interpretation of the dosage identified by the dosing software may be required, so a practical and easy-to-administer dose could be prescribed to the patient.
Although his thinking has its origins in Total Football, his is a more pragmatic interpretation of it.
Based on the evidence presented, we believe the following represents a reasonable and pragmatic interpretation of the results and how a clinician might use the information.
Yet, scientific socialism was asserted by its followers to be a species of ultimate philosophical truth rather than, as Hook's pragmatic interpretation required, a set of fallible and corrigible hypotheses about the historical situation, including contemporaneous economic processes and their eventual outcomes.
For both types of implicatures, the hearer's (pragmatic) interpretation of an expression involves what he takes to be the speaker's reason for using this expression.
That is a pragmatic argument for limiting the pragmatic interpretation of our Constitution.
In the tradition of Deweyan pragmatism, Hook sought to apply the pragmatic interpretation of ethics to diverse areas of social action including issues of educational policy, cultural freedom and societal change.
