Sentence examples for pragmatic utility from inspiring English sources
There is, they argue, a certain pragmatic utility in retaining it, even if they acknowledge that racial categories result from social and historical legacies, rather than being dictated by nature.
While generally there is a presumption that to catch out some entity or category as socially constructed is at the same time to condemn it, many thinkers are prepared to simultaneously acknowledge both the non-naturalness of race as well as a certain pragmatic utility in retaining it.
The only issue is the pragmatic utility, or otherwise, of any given mathematical calculus.
So, in epistemic utility theory, we appeal to epistemic utility to ask which of a range of possible epistemic states it is rational to adopt, just as in traditional utility theory we appeal to non-epistemic, pragmatic utility to ask which of a range of possible actions it is rational to perform.
However, this raises a series of questions regarding the pragmatic utility of current clinical guidelines [ 51].
The decision making criteria for this selection was inclusivity of participants and pragmatic utility in accordance with the research question.
We have demonstrated the practical utility of, and advocate, a pragmatic widely applicable approach to exploring plausible departures from the MAR assumption post multiple imputation.
Lastly, it must be noted that Carnap's intensionalist logic of science holds out the promise of practical utility only for the price of a pragmatic story that remains to be told.
Further towards the center is the classical nationalism that gives nation-centered claims precedence over individual interests and many needs (including pragmatic collective utility), but not necessarily over general human rights.
It addresses clinical trials designs needs to better demonstrate efficacy and effectiveness in cognitive impairment syndromes and in part the controversy over the currently approved cognitive enhancers by demonstrating that, by design, the clinical trials that were the basis for approval of current drugs could not speak to pragmatic effectiveness, utility, or worthiness of the marketed drugs.
Agents bring them to experience and the only criteria they answer to are pragmatic ones of utility or convenience (Lewis 1929, 271 2).
