pragmatum

English

Noun

pragmatum (plural pragmata)

1. (philosophy) A thing viewed through a pragmatic lens, i.e. a tool viewed as the sum of practical consequences for which it is responsible.
   • 2006, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Imaginatio Creatrix, page 199:

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

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

     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.

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

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

Related terms

• pragmatism