But they eventually take to heart Mr. McCain's pragmatic observation that "people have represented Libya in this town".
Notwithstanding this pragmatic observation, the feasibility of both a formal theorisation and a practical observation of trans-national diffusion remain underdeveloped.
These claims by Taylor and Frankfurt go beyond the merely pragmatic observation that a reasonable degree of self-understanding is required for effective action.
This was a pragmatic observation of a heterogeneous group of patients being considered for extubation.
In the clinical context, it is a pragmatic observation that impaired attention and executive functions interfere with the rehabilitation of aphasia.
These findings demonstrate the continued need and cumulative benefit over time with continued prophylaxis, an important and clinically pragmatic observation for clinicians and patients.
Melville used so many kinds of language: sailor talk influenced by race and region, high religious rhetoric, pragmatic everyday observation and dense, ecstatic groupings of metaphor and allusion.
Schlick 1935) Friends of this line of thought theorized about the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of observation sentences, and inferential connections between observation and theoretical sentences.
This, together with the fact that investigators must agree to accept putative evidence before they use it to test a theoretical claim, imposes a pragmatic condition on observation reports: an observation report must be such that investigators can reach agreement relatively quickly and relatively easily about whether it provides good evidence with which to test a theory (Cf. Neurath 1913).
The incongruence between existing theorisations and assumptions on one side and pragmatic and empirical observations on the other provide an initial signal that the structural independence hypothesis and the present accounts of FRP development should be revisited.
And Feyerabend soon followed up this implication with his "Pragmatic Theory of Observation", according to which what is important about observation-sentences is not their having a special core of empirical meaning, but their causal role in the production and refutation of theories.
