instrumentalism

How To Use instrumentalism In A Sentence

• One might be called pragmatic utilitarianism or instrumentalism.
• The most influential formulation of this idea was Dewey's instrumentalism.
• He built track after track of weaving hip hop instrumentalism laced with guitar and sampled guitar byproducts while a mystified audience looked on with head-nodding appreciation.
• Their unorthodox manner of philosophical argument, cloaked, perhaps necessarily, in the language of differential geometry, has tended to conceal or obscure conclusions about the significance of a "geometrized physics" that push in considerably different directions from either instrumentalism or scientific realism. Early Philosophical Interpretations of General Relativity
• Instrumentalism is essentially the view that when you have scientific theory what matters is the results that it delivers.
• That instrumentalism takes the form of an obsessive economism.
• Buddy\'s masterful multi-instrumentalism and Julie\'s sugar-cutting vocals ring in the truth. Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Ninety-Six
• The article provides an in-depth analysis of the complex dynamics between the socialist ideology, economic efficiency and legal instrumentalism in China.
• Science, for all its instrumentalism, is not, at its best, in conflict with aesthetics but in conspiracy with it.
• The bill is entirely too clever for its own good, painfully complicated in its tinkering instrumentalism, which in the end would do very little and do it too late, like an impoverished family scrounging for dinner money on the eve of their eviction. Christian Parenti: The Big Green Buy: How Government's Purchasing Power Can Drive The Clean-Energy Revolution