Sentence examples for sufficiently pragmatic from inspiring English sources

I have already mentioned Pepper's objection that Dewey's theory is not sufficiently pragmatic (Pepper 1939).

We specified a priori that compliance was likely to be an important contributor to the effect of group cognitive behavioural therapy, and designed a trial that was sufficiently pragmatic to allow estimation of these effects in a generalizable sample and range of settings [ 2].

Faced with a short turn-around request to characterise several hand-held mine detection systems the authors developed and applied an analytical methodology that was sufficiently robust and pragmatic to satisfy the needs of the various military stakeholders involved yet it was appropriately rigorous and transparent to bear external scrutiny.

The data fit an empirical negative logarithm function well, as indicated by high R2 values and this mathematical model might therefore be 'fit for purpose' in its present form (i.e. sufficiently accurate and pragmatic for field use).

Nevertheless, our methods were sufficiently fine-grained and pragmatic to yield data that indicate the need for action.

While acknowledging many of the arguments above, some have argued that although there are some children who are competent and sufficiently mature, it makes pragmatic sense to have a single age threshold the most common is 18 years of age.

Since most, if not all, signs have as their interpreters living organisms, it is a sufficiently accurate characterization of pragmatics to say that it deals with the biotic aspects of semiosis, that is, with all the psychological, biological, and sociological phenomena which occur in the functioning of signs.

Did the experiments sufficiently control for the multitudinous "pragmatic" effects endemic to polling procedures?

Philosophy apparently only concerns the latter: intuitions of competent participants operating in sufficiently ideal conditions where only semantic (as opposed to pragmatic) considerations matter (2007, 97).

While the methodology is still not sensitive enough to definitively demonstrate a threshold, it may be sufficiently sensitive to eliminate the difference between real thresholds and the pragmatic thresholds that represent ambient environmental exposure levels.

Another possible explanation for the lack of effect is that the pragmatic intervention employed failed to reduce house dust mite load sufficiently.