" This advice is pragmatic and moderate and represents the moral message of the short story.

Subud offers formal pragmatic, preliminary advice in relation to commencing the practice.

Some of the pragmatic theories, such as those by Charles Peirce and William James, included aspects of correspondence, coherence and constructivist theories.

The school developed a humanistic and pragmatic teaching program: instructors included academics as well as ministers, high civil servants, and businessmen.

It does suggest ways of organizing different structures of the process model while the content is kept intact but the pragmatic issue of what must be included in the model is still left out.

Spells commented on by reviewers included Consumptive Field, Awaken Undead, Wither Limb, Avasculate, Necrotic Cyst ( and related spells, including Necrotic Domination and Necrotic Bloat ), along with spells aimed at players, such as Spawn Screen and Mass Death Ward, described as " more pragmatic than exciting ".

It is a matter of case-by-case judgement whether such characters should receive separate encoding when used in technical contexts, e. g. Greek letters used as mathematical symbols: thus, the choice to have a " micro-sign " µ separate from Greek μ, but not a " Mega sign " separate from Latin M was a pragmatic decision by Unicode consortium for historical reasons ( compatibility with Latin-1 which included a micro sign ).

It is also distinguished from virtue ethics, which focuses on the character of the agent rather than on the nature or consequences of the act ( or omission ) itself, and pragmatic ethics which treats morality like science: advancing socially over the course of many lifetimes, such that any moral criterion is subject to revision.

Some ' hard ' eurosceptics such as UKIP prefer to call themselves euro-realists rather than ' sceptics ', and regard their position as pragmatic rather than " in principle ".

" He also had pragmatic reasons for promoting de-nuclearisation, fearing that a nuclear arms race would lead to over-militarisation that would be unaffordable for developing countries such as his own.

Many aspects of modernist design still persist within the mainstream of contemporary architecture today, though its previous dogmatism has given way to a more playful use of decoration, historical quotation, and spatial drama. In other arts such pragmatic considerations were less important.

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Much academic debate regarded one or both of two pragmatic topics: how ( or whether ) to apply utilitarianism to problems of political policy, or how ( or whether ) to apply economic models ( such as rational choice theory ) to political issues.

Many tories-both red and blue-opposed such moves, while others took the view that all would have to be pragmatic if there was any hope of reviving a strong party system.

Other laws are pragmatic and observational, such as the law of unintended consequences.

For economic, political, humanitarian and pragmatic reasons, many states passed laws allowing a person to acquire their citizenship after birth ( such as by marriage to a national – jus matrimonii – or by having ancestors who are nationals of that country ), in order to reduce the scope of this category.

Only texts considered productive by Legalists were preserved, most on pragmatic subjects, such as agriculture, divination, and medicine.

Instead of a codified classification as the pragmatic application of genre, the new genre idea insists that " human agents not only have the creative capacities to reproduce past action, such as action embedded in genres, but also can respond to changes in their environment, and in turn change that environment, to produce under-determined and possibly unprecedented action, such as by modifying genres " ( Killoran 72 ).

Speech acts can be analysed on three levels: A locutionary act, the performance of an utterance: the actual utterance and its ostensible meaning, comprising phonetic, phatic and rhetic acts corresponding to the verbal, syntactic and semantic aspects of any meaningful utterance ; an illocutionary act: the pragmatic ' illocutionary force ' of the utterance, thus its intended significance as a socially valid verbal action ( see below ); and in certain cases a further perlocutionary act: its actual effect, such as persuading, convincing, scaring, enlightening, inspiring, or otherwise getting someone to do or realize something, whether intended or not ( Austin 1962 ).

Wyndham's narrative also focuses on the pragmatic issues of self-sufficiency facing survivors of such a catastrophe.

The historical period of ancient Greece is unique in world history as the first period attested directly in proper historiography, while earlier ancient history or proto-history is known by much more circumstantial evidence, such as annals or king lists, and pragmatic epigraphy.

Other laws are pragmatic and observational, such as the law of unintended consequences.

It was encouraged for pragmatic reasons, such as natural trellising, but mainly with the idea that different species of plant may thrive more when close together.

Hayeks's ideas on information and the necessity of evolving evolutions placed neoliberalism firmly on the pragmatic side against both rationalist socialists ( such as communists, fascism and social liberals ) and rationalist capitalists ( such as economic libertarians, laissez-faire capitalists ) alike.

As such, his rise to the leadership represented China's transition of leadership from establishment communists to younger, more pragmatic technocrats.

The split proved to be long-standing and had to do both with pragmatic issues based in history such as the failed revolution of 1905, and theoretical issues of class leadership, class alliances, and bourgeois democracy.

The importance of rationalist philosophers such as John Locke, Descartes, Spinoza and many others who followed them, and the scientific, social and economic developments of this period began to have ever greater impact, and in place of the older classical idealism, a more realistic, pragmatic, empirical understanding of life and human behavior, which recognized human individuality and conscious experience, began to emerge.

He reports that labour history has been mostly pragmatic, eclectic and empirical ; it has played an important role in historiographical debates, such as those revolving around history from below, institutionalism versus the social history of labour, class, populism, gender, language, postmodernism and the turn to politics.

Unlike Hitler, who saw the Non-Aggression Pact as merely a pragmatic device forced on him by circumstances, namely the refusal of Britain or Poland to play the roles Hitler had allocated to them, Ribbentrop regarded the Non-Aggression Pact as integral to his anti-British policy.

His religious views were pragmatic enough to be favoured both by Mary I, who gave him the Deanery of Ely, and Elizabeth I.

His personality reflects more modern, pragmatic attitudes and progressive ethics than those of his time, which often puts him in conflict with his brethren, particularly with his superior Prior Robert and Robert's clerk Brother Jerome, who disapprove of Cadfael for his casual attitude toward rules and for the privileges that are allowed him by their Abbot.

His support for many New Deal programs marked him as a moderate, pragmatic Republican.

John Taylor points out the wording of Spells 30B and 125 suggests a pragmatic approach to morality ; by preventing the heart from contradicting him with any inconvenient truths, it seems that the deceased could enter the afterlife even if their life had not been entirely pure.

His upbringing and education at a German Gymnasium prepared him for a life as a philosophic art connoisseur and as a pragmatic businessman.

His relativism even leads him to doubt the basis of pragmatic arguments ( that a good course of action preserves our lives ) since this presupposes that life is good and death bad.

Though the ALI ’ s restatements met with complaints that they undermined the fluidity of the common law and echoed the codification of European civil law, it is fair to say Lewis ’ s work as director rank him as the single most influential figure in the pragmatic development of 20th-century American law.

However, it remains pragmatic for him to nominate the person most likely to enjoy the confidence of the Cortes and form a government, usually the political leader whose party commands the most seats in the Cortes.

The term “ constitutional economics ” was used by American economist – James M. Buchanan – as a name for a new academic sub-discipline that in 1986 brought him the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his “ development of the contractual and constitutional bases for the theory of economic and political decision-making .” Buchanan rejects “ any organic conception of the state as superior in wisdom, to the individuals who are its members .” Buchanan believes that a constitution, intended for use by at least several generations of citizens, must be able to adjust itself for pragmatic economic decisions and to balance interests of the state and society against those of individuals and their constitutional rights to personal freedom and private happiness.

He turns to his father for help and counsel, but the pragmatic Mr. Compson tells him that virginity is invented by men and should not be taken seriously.

While many praised him for his “ pragmatic ” leadership style and successes in revitalizing St. Paul, critics labeled him an " opportunist " and Coleman frequently found himself at odds with the more liberal members of the Democratic Party.

Khomeini biographer Baqer Moin describes the incident as " a watershed in Khomeini's life " transforming him from a " cautious, pragmatic politician " into " a modern revolutionary, single-mindedly pursing a dogma ".

However, Joseph M. Ransdell reported that PEP-UQÀM's director < span lang = fr > François Latraverse </ span > informed him that John Dewey actually wrote the Supplements definitions of " pragmatic ", " pragmatism ", etc.

President Arroyo mourned Ople as " an architect of Philippine foreign policy in the finest tradition of enlightened and pragmatic diplomacy ", while U. S. Secretary of State Colin Powell hailed him as " one of the pivotal figures of the late Twentieth Century for Philippine history ".

Indeed his growing awareness of the pragmatic tradition led him in the opposite direction.

Dumoulin viewed metaphysics as the expression of a transcendent truth, which according to him was expressed by Mahayana Buddhism, but not by the pragmatic analysis of the oldest Buddhism, which emphasizes anatta.

The midrashic Book of Jasher portrays Issachar as somewhat pragmatic, due to his strong effort in being more learned, less involved with other matters which led him to such actions like taking a feeble part in military campaigns involving his brothers, and generally residing in strongly fortified cities and, depending on his brother Zebulun's fianancial support in return for a share in the spiritual reward he gains.

The majority of Karyotakis ' contemporaries viewed him in a dim light throughout his lifetime without a pragmatic accountability for their contemptuous views ; for after his suicide, the majority began to revert to the view that he was indeed a great poet.

Even as a relatively new face, a moderate support for Augusto Pinochet and a proposal eminently pragmatic rather than dogmatic, took him to get the 47. 51 % of the votes against the Concertación candidate Ricardo Lagos on the first ballot, with a difference of about 30, 000 votes ( i. e., almost one vote per polling place ).

He refused the job on principles, asserting he did not wish to work in English in Quebec, and also for pragmatic reasons, because he wished for a flexible schedule that would allow him to continue his militancy for independence in his spare time.