Sentence examples for pragmatic conception from inspiring English sources
Lewis's theory provides a novel and distinctively pragmatic conception of the element in knowledge that is a priori, or independent of experience.
Hu Shih speculated that in this use, changconstant resembled a pragmatic conception of 'true'true
A pragmatic conception of rule guidance might therefore seem to be required.
Starting with his much reprinted 1923 article, "A Pragmatic Conception of the A Priori" (Lewis 1923), he developed a distinctive position of his own which he labeled "conceptual pragmatism" and which he presented in a systematic way in his 1929 book Mind and the World Order (MWO) (Lewis 1929).
Thus, to some extent religious beliefs from Buddhism and cultural norms and values from familialism and nationalism may explain a pragmatic re-conception of CSR in Vietnam as philanthropic responsibilities.
(The pragmatic, or pragmaticistic, conception of meaning implies that two theories with exactly the same empirical content must have, despite superficial appearances, the same meaning).
Others have argued in favor of preserving a pragmatically untainted conception of semantics, but for a more fine-grained conception of pragmatics.
Pragmatic, before after design.
A second difference rooted in the psychological conception of pragmatics is reliance on the representational theory of mind.
Stalnaker's work was part of an avalanche of pragmatic attacks on the semantic conception of presupposition.
