Here McEvilley takes the analytic pragmatist's position that Sontag begs the question, for "just what it is" has not yet been established.
The North Korean tactic puts Mr. Lee, a self-styled pragmatist, in a difficult position.
Mr. McGreevey has positioned himself as a pragmatist intent on finding sober if modest ways to improve state government after eight years of Republican leadership in Trenton.
Her male pragmatist colleagues were sympathetic to feminist positions but did not make the claims as forcefully or consistently as Addams (Seigfried, 1996).
Tsipras has always tried to position himself as a sensible pragmatist willing to work constructively with his European creditors.
Socially engaged thick description has been undertaken in regard to architecture (Awan et al. [2011]; Yaneva [2009]) using Actor-Network Theory, although they differentiate between a "pragmatist" approach that calls upon descriptive pre-theoretic positions from within architecture, and what they would call a "critical" approach that calls on resources from outside architecture (Yaneva [2009]).
The traditionalist had the highest acceptance of violence as a tool to uphold the superior position of men within marriage, while the pragmatist viewed violence as undesirable but sometimes needed in order to correct the wife's behavior.
Positioning herself within this lineage, Grosz affirms "pragmatist philosophers who put the questions of action, practice, and movement at the center of ontology" (2001, 169).
Depending on the outcome, or possibly whatever the outcome, Beeston, considered a pragmatist compared with Alderson's hard-line nature, could leave his position as baseball's chief operating officer.
Virtually every politician running in a general election positions him or herself as a centrist or pragmatist.
Far from being an anti-theoretical position that champions level-headed practicality as is sometimes thought, pragmatist philosophy stresses the dynamic relationship between theory and practice and especially the value of each for transforming the other.
