To some doctors in India, the warning underscored the pragmatic aims of the company's philanthropy.
In Venezuela, though, the government's oil policy is seen as pragmatic, aimed at obtaining capital to help Pdvsa grow while providing the revenues needed to finance the government's antipoverty efforts.
The paradoxes are dissolved by showing how responsible inquiry respects a division of labor between the functions of evidence and social values the evidence helping inquirers track the truth, the social values helping inquirers construct representations out of those truths that serve the pragmatic aims of inquiry (Anderson 1995b).
The justification of government is pragmatic, its aim improvement and the release of the free choice of individuals and the play of market forces that will create prosperity.
Game-theoretic explanations of pragmatic phenomena aim to single out those sender-receiver strategy pairs that correspond to empirically attested behavior as optimal and/or rational solution of the game problem.
But for the tea-party movement, political choices often appear to be expressive acts and identity statements, rather than pragmatic efforts aimed at legislative achievements.
America, as well as France, Germany, Russia and China, should take a pragmatic approach aimed at narrowing rather than perpetuating past differences.
His attitude was entirely pragmatic; he aimed to give the people what they wanted and the audiences loved what they got.
In a book that abounds with helpful, pragmatic shoptalk aimed at the aspiring screenwriter, the fundamental lesson seems to be: stand tall, kid, and dont whine or compromise.
