The pragmatic criterion of significance is expressly epistemic, not semantic: it speaks of relevance with regard to an established cognitive practice, not in-principle truth-evaluability.
But this is a lot harder in practice than in principle.
Anhydride, any chemical compound obtained, either in practice or in principle, by the elimination of water from another compound.
There were also some excellent speeches made in the Commons and the Lords opposing 42 days both in practice and in principle.
Israel and Palestine are certainly not good neighbors, and there is an urgent need, both in practice and in principle, to establish a border between them.
Philosophical criticism of genetic reductionism persisted, however, culminating in the 1980s in a devastating critique by the Australian philosopher Philip Kitcher, who denied the possibility, in practice and in principle, of any theoretical reduction of the sort envisioned by the logical positivists.
Relative frequencies were typically relied upon in practice, but in principle they had to be limiting.
In this review, the development of species concepts is discussed, both in practice and in principle, applied to the cichlid fishes of Lake Malawi.
As with monetary input-output tables, all intermediate outputs are also intermediate inputs, if not in practice then in principle, and hence our intermediate mass flow matrix is square and symmetrical.
Although consumers support the practice nurse role in principle, there is no research to date on consumer acceptability of specific practice nurse interventions [ 21].
