pragmatic
நடைமுறைக்கேற்ற
definition
adjective
a pragmatic approach to politics
dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations.
example
The whirlwind tour was meant to humanize the low-cost leviathan so often depicted as self-serving and ruthlessly 'pragmatic' .
As I read history, most of the founders were sensible and 'pragmatic' men rather than visionary idealists.
As a philosopher, he was known for offering a commonsense, 'pragmatic' approach to those theoretical issues that he knew required clarity.
But these 'pragmatic' matters have nothing to do with fundamental determinism.
Or maybe he was never as 'pragmatic' as I had given him credit for being.
I know I am recommending a 'pragmatic' rather than a principled stand, but that is what national interest and foreign policy is all about.
However, the spokesperson said the board would take a practical and 'pragmatic' approach to prosecutions.
He saw the 'pragmatic' account of meaning as a method for clearing up metaphysics and aiding scientific inquiry.
But the decisions about whether or not to do them would be ruthlessly 'pragmatic' : Would it work?
Some Pascalians propose combining 'pragmatic' and epistemic factors in a two-stage process.
He praised the practical and 'pragmatic' approach of the college in developing a curriculum of courses designed to help students get on in the workplace.
Certain civil servants were advocating a more 'pragmatic' approach to the situation, however.
Would not a semantically empty text, keeping only the 'pragmatic' skeleton of a conventional letter, aptly embody the artificiality of such letters?
I discuss in relation to cross-cultural spoken and written data two such features, and argue that they may well lead to some form of 'pragmatic' failure.
But some 'pragmatic' strategists fear that his voting record in Congress may be a bit too liberal.
This is a programme that any 'pragmatic' centre-right government could be proud of.
But for all his intellectual gifts, his kingship was essentially 'pragmatic' .
Twinned to his 'pragmatic' , populist social democracy has been a maddening Trotskyite temperament.
Thus his apparent liberality on this question rested on 'pragmatic' considerations rather than on principle.
They are doing the right thing for once, so I'm not going to knock them because their reasons are 'pragmatic' rather than ideological.
This is how what linguists term 'pragmatic' markers have arisen in languages worldwide.
The Democrats decided they needed a different, more 'pragmatic' approach in order to win.
Nationalist fundamentalism as a basis for French policy gave way to 'pragmatic' intergovernmentalism.
Unfortunately, while it is eminently 'pragmatic' , that doesn't mean that it's actually morally right.
All three authors point out that as a composer Stravinsky was very 'pragmatic' .
It favors 'pragmatic' solutions over political partisanship and centrist positions over extreme ideology.
Furthermore, they generate the same 'pragmatic' implicatures.
The contextualist / 'pragmatic' outlook provokes anxieties of its own.
On the contrary, syntax is indispensable for a 'pragmatic' language and pragmatics is indispensable for a syntactic language.
All 'pragmatic' or practical considerations have been set aside: the only question at issue is whether his beliefs about the world are true.
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