pragmatum

plural pragmata

1. human sciencesA thing viewed through a pragmatic lens, i.e. a tool viewed as the sum of practical consequences for which it is responsible.

   I state that the pragmata as "the useful things" went beyond these "live options."

   2006, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Imaginatio Creatrix, page 199

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   Pragmata already imply the relation with self that avoids the necessity of having to posit, or argue for, something like the pure essence or true meaning of a thing.

   2007, Pat Arneson, Perspectives on Philosophy of Communication, page 223

   For Ortega, pragmata do not represent our real concerns in life, but, as he liked to call them, "pseudo-things."

   2008, Norman K. Denzin, Studies in Symbolic Interaction, page 85