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    There are many differing views about democracy, but “currently, there are three prominent streams within pragmatic political philosophy: Deweyan democratic perfectionism, Rortyan ironism, and pragmatist epistemic deliberativism” (Talise 2014 123) that provide for the conception of liberal democracy and its implementation. Though each of these philosophical explanations offer their own unique conception of democracy along with how to fulfill democracy’s enactment, pragmatist epistemic…

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    was already “oriented towards the problematic situation rather than generalized, universal truth (Miller, 2004a, p. 244). According to Miller (2004b), “what is needed is improvement in the methods and conditions of discourse” (p. 182), thus in pragmatic, postmodern research, “legitimation comes from these local communities, from their own discourses”, whose local inquiries attempt “to figure our which construction of reality works better given the contingencies of local contexts” (p. 184).…

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    1. What is the greatest ethical challenge for followers in your experiences? What is your greatest ethical challenge when following another leader? Of my personal experience the job I was doing paid greatly but it wasn’t what I wanted to do since it did not align with my personal goal. Nevertheless, I tried my best to put all my possible efforts into it. For the first few months I was okay with the job but has time went on I started to lose interest in the job and I was unable to…

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    Swift justifies his primary claim, that cannibalizing children should resolve the poverty crisis, through a pragmatic discussion of its potential benefits. Swift estimates that “a hundred and twenty thousand children of poor parents [are] annually born,” with each child selling for approximately “ten shillings” and “mak[ing] four dishes of excellent nutritive meat”…

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    is a great example of this. In line for 49 there is another example of pragmatics. Javier forgets that he is speaking to staff and not one of his peers or siblings. Javier had the most difficulty in this component. Javier would constantly forget who his audience was. Cognitive Skills When it comes to cognitive skills there is no better place to start then the four stages of Piaget’s Cognitive Development. Psychologist Jean Piaget believed that children had to progress through for stages in…

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    formal measures. USE- Pragmatics might be the main deficit that children with PDD possess. Children might have problems with personal body space and having conversations with others. Nonverbal communication such as gestures and eye gaze might be cited. The child might have trouble with turn taking in conversation. They don’t understand the exchange of communication, so this might result in the child not let others speak. This list goes on and on with the deficit of pragmatics. This is the…

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    regime a phenomenon in European history. The regime has become a topic for debate amongst scholars, with many examining the motivations behind the brutal policies of the regime. A thorough examination into the regimes central policies, reveals that pragmatic thinking guided the earliest economic policies which provided the platform for more utopian ambitions to be fulfilled, thus utopian thinking shaped the major policies of…

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    Introduction The writing sample used in this analysis is from a young English Language Learner’s journal. The topic of the student wrote about is a current news event—bombings that occurred in New York and New Jersey in September of 2016. There is no verbal speech involved in this analysis, so I will be focusing solely the student’s writing. In order to understand the student’s comprehension of the English language through writing, I will have to look closely at the sample to see their…

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    the negative and positive influence would be with the excution of this policy. Thses point viwes are not sure to be true, but with certain reliability, because these views are from experts and supported by data and researches. Jounalist always use pragmatic ways to illustrate the events or facts with evidences in realistsm to be closer to truth. To interprating a event or facts, jounalsts interwvie some experts and insititutions to give their opioins, such as the National Day in 2015, there was…

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    The fatal weakness with a pragmatic justification of induction is just that it is a pragmatic justification and not an epistemic justification. While it may motivate us to employ a certain strategy of reasoning inductively, it gives us no indication of the actual likelihood of its success meaning whether the inductive…

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