Sentence examples for pragmatic foundation from inspiring English sources

Upon this pragmatic foundation, the Romans erected a superstructure of ideology that held that "they always waged just war, on the argument that their enemies had committed an offence and failed to atone for it".

Indeed, you're actually much more likely to hear Santorum explain the "pragmatic foundation" of his principles than you are to hear him defend social conservatism on natural law or biblical grounds — presumably because he believes that in a pluralist society a pragmatic argument is usually more effective than arguments that start or end with "it's intrinsically immoral".

They emphasis the pragmatic foundation of explanations and claim that whether an explanation is accepted or not depends on the context like the background knowledge of the audience (van Fraassen 1980).

Positivism's emphasis on both empirical science and pragmatic solutions appeared to provide a practical foundation for attaining the diverse ends of the new nations.

Although they are estimated to affect about 12 million Americans each year in ambulatory care settings alone, both the conceptual and pragmatic scientific foundation for their measurement is under-developed.

9 Many studies, including those involving record reviews and malpractice claims, have shown that common conditions (ie, not just rare or difficult cases) are often missed, leading to patient harm. 1 4 10 11 However, both the conceptual and pragmatic scientific foundation for measurement of diagnostic errors is underdeveloped.

It's pragmatic and a foundation for fancier play should the need arise.

Then, when the hold of scholasticism did begin to wane, two fresh influences, equally powerful, came on the scene to prevent anything comparable to the pragmatic and empirical foundations of the physical sciences from forming in the study of man and society.