Pragmatism

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• Public Apology: Dear T.

  
  The Awl — Authority: 783
  Dear T., Sorry for telling you what I was thinking about when you asked me what I was thinking about. There are times in life when we should lie. Junior year of college, in your bed, having just had sex: this was one of those times. Your dorm room was so clean and neat, with pink stuff and flower prints. It ...
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• Health Care Reform Part 1,000,000

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 145
  Nate Silver wants to convince you that in spite of everything the health care bill really is a good idea. A slightly longer version of the elevator pitch. So, we’ve talked a lot about what the bill is not. It’s not structural reform. What is it, then? At the end of the day, it’s a big bleeping ...
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• Health Care Watch (Vermont Is Angry and So Am I)

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 145
  Potentially seismic news tonight as Bernie Sanders ( backing me up on reconciliation ) now says he currently can’t support the health care bill. This comes amidst his fellow Vermonter, Howard Dean, continuing to argue that the bill in its current form is worse than nothing and Joe Lieberman, history’s ...
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• Politics and Pro-Life Pragmatism

  
  UofT Students for Life — Authority: 422
  The American Catholic had a post a few weeks back about pro-life pragmatism which touched on a lot of themes that come up when talking about abortion to people on campus. In recent days I have had a few arguments with fellow pro-lifers about the Stupak amendment in particular, and political strategy in general. ...
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• EMERGENCY: US Army View of PreMillennialism

  
  Living Journey — Authority: 129
    Okay, stop what you are doing and go to the links posted with two quotes provided. I regard this as a RED FLAG POST ! I have just got wind of this and I feel I must pass this on ASAP… This posting is an United States Army report about the literal believers of the Bible and how they affect ...
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• Boat crew’s shock as shark gnashes oar

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A surf boat has been attacked by a white pointer shark while on a training run at Hawks Nest, north of Newcastle. The boat was about 400 metres off shore when the sweepers oar was ripped from his hands by the shark - thought to be a juvenile. Surf boat sweeper, Greg Ross says the crew got the shock of their lives. ...
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• New Parterships in Christian Activism -- Transforming Christian Theology, ch. 14

  
  Ponderings on a Faith Journey — Authority: 136
  Transforming Theology Project Philip Clayton, Transforming Christian Theology , Fortress Press, 2010. New Partnerships in Christian Activism Chapter 14 We have examined our context and laid out the important questions, and now it is time to consider the ways in which we can put a theology that can ...
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• Obama Administration : Growing Influence of the Neo-Cons

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 559
  Cartoon By Baloo from Baloo Cartoons.White House foreign policy:Globalist/pragmatist hybridWhile the political philosophy articulated or implied by President Obama is far from that of the neo-conservatives, [many of the] concrete policies that he has embraced do in fact resemble Reagan/Bush era policies. By Harry Targ ...
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• Notes on Creative Philosophy

  
  brianfrank.ca — Authority: 420
  Some readers may have noticed I’ve been getting little deeper and more technical lately. I’m trying to unburden myself of all of the theoretical equipment I’ve been using for the past few years — trying to make it explicit, get it out into the open, into the light of day. I should stress it’s just a ...
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• Things Happen Because Time Exists

  
  brianfrank.ca — Authority: 420
  Diving in even further over my head, here’s further elaboration of the philosophy I use. To understand why we do things, we have to appreciate why things happen at all. It’s ridiculously simple: things happen because time exists . I’ve found this principle to be a useful heuristic for grounding uncertainty ...
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• Whatever works is likely true

  
  MetaBlog — Authority: 114
  According to Pragmatism, the truth or meaning of an idea or a proposition lies in its observable practical consequences rather than anything metaphysical. It can be summarized by the phrase “whatever works, is likely true.” Because reality changes, “whatever works” will also change — thus, truth must ...
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• Object Bias

  
  brianfrank.ca — Authority: 420
  This is part of my attempt to outline my thinking about thinking. Consider it a proposal, open to revision and refinement. Even after years of work, it will never be perfect or final. The core of my practice of theory is an appreciation of what I call “object bias” — our tendency to conceive experience ...
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• More on Health Care and the Political Spectrum

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 145
  Starting off, I thought this insightful post from Matt Yglesias puts the central paradox in centrist/incrementalist approaches to health care reform very well: The reason is that the way insurance companies make money is to segment the population based on risk. And the way centrist, moderate, or otherwise ...
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• Obama and the Bunny Planet

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  I like Barack Obama, but I misjudged him. I mistook ambition for courage, and conformity for pragmatism. He needs a visit to the Bunny Planet. The Bunny Planet appears in a series of books I read to my two-year-old daughter, by Rosemary Wells. After the characters in the series have a miserable day, theyre whisked ...
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• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
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• The Manhattan Declaration – unequally yoked!

  
  Living Journey — Authority: 129
  Jacob Prasch has written his view on “ The Manhattan Declaration ” which is an ecumenical declaration that speaks against such things as abortion, homosexual marriage and the rights of religious liberty… We are Orthodox, Catholic, and evangelical Christians who have united at this hour to reaffirm fundamental ...
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• My Favourite Cake, Ever

  
  Eat The Blog — Authority: 131
  HERE. Yeah, that was me. Who did you think baked it, Dorie Greenspan? I thought about reviving the Dewey blog again this year, but I have so much other stuff to do, I couldnt give it the attention it deserves. Besides, how could I ever improve on that last post? I couldnt, really. I half expected to get an angry ...
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• whoa!

  
  ... solipsubmissive ... — Authority: 103
  Full on crisis deadline mode!  Take cover, my beautiful friends … I’m goin’ in!Somehow, I always manage to push myself into a frenzy the last month before something is due.  My history on this is long and storied.  Any high school teacher can tell you I either didn’t finish in time and got points off [...]
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• The U.S. Shouldn’t Bless Honduras’s Flawed Elections

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 659
  Elections took place Sunday, Nov. 29 in Honduras with National Party leader Porfirio Lobo declared the winner. But elections carried out under a state of emergency — with visible military and police presence, by a government installed by coup, with a…
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• How to respond to postmodernism, relativism, subjectivism, pluralism and skepticism

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 538
  Four articles from Paul Copan over at the UK site “BeThinking”. Each article responds to a different slogan that you might hear if you’re dealing with non-Christians on the street. “That’s just your interpretation!” Some of his possible responses: Gently ask, ‘Do you mean that your interpretation ...
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