Sentence examples for pragmatic thought from inspiring English sources

Subsea oil and gas pipelines are commonly designed with 3 6 mm internal corrosion allowance added to pipeline wall thickness often without pragmatic thought.

The core notion of early pragmatic thought is that all ideas, utterances, and actions can only be judged in relationship to our practices and the outcome of those ideas, utterances, and actions.

A distressed Nigella rushed to his side; Ludo looked alarmed; Tony, more pragmatic, thought the boy ought to "toughen the fuck up".

Such pragmatic thoughts bring the name of Gareth Batty, the leading English spinner in Division One, into the mix, 11 years after the last of his seven Test caps.

Then he paused, before continuing in pragmatic thoughts, "But you can get as romantic as you want about things like that, and it doesn't matter if you don't pitch".

Neo-Pragmatic thought is not concerned with ontology or foundations; indeed, from the viewpoint of Neo-Pragmatism, ontology is a notion that ought to have historical interest only, and foundations are unprivileged notions that can only be used to justify one action, at one time, to one audience.

Bratman's pragmatic theory is meant to avoid these problems while giving intention a crucial role in practical thought.

The musician doesn't bother to dispute this, but does contribute a rather more pragmatic final thought: "Wherever we are, we are.

Logos ("reason; science") was the pragmatic mode of thought that enabled us to control our environment and function in the world.

The doctrine of the three models thus reflects the pragmatic orientation of their thought, in particular the assumption, common to many early Chinese thinkers, that the primary purpose of language and judgment is to guide action appropriately, rather than to describe facts.

He comfortably connects the realms of high art and street vernacular and conceptual thought and pragmatic politics.