pragmatic and Pragmatism
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pragma 'deed'
A quick trip to the shelves found
Dictionary of Theories Jennifer Bothamley (1993) (pragmatic.pdf)...each quite eloquent, and pointing me to the (literal) atmosphere in which I grew up, suffused with traces of Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, which were at the core of my mother's studies in the early 1950s, and came to me, seemingly by osmosis.Harper Dictionary of Modern Thought Alan Bullock (1977) ('pragmatism.pdf"}
The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century Peter Watson (2001) (there's a chapter on "The Pragmatic Mind of America")
William James:
...the whole function of philosophy ought to be to find out what definite difference it will make to you and me, at definite instants of our life, if this world-formula or that world-formula be the true one......Truth was/is not absolute... There are many truths, and they are only true so long as they are practically useful (Watson 2001:76)
And then the usual Duck Duck Go search:
pragmatic Merriam-Webster...1: dealing with the problems that exist in a specific situation in a reasonable and logical way instead of depending on ideas and theories : practical as opposed to idealisticpragmatic Cambridge Dictionary
solving problems in a sensible way that suits the conditions that really exist now, rather than obeying fixed theories, ideas, or rulesPragmatism Wikipedia
Pragmatism Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
I'm not sure where/if these fit:
Deixis WikipediaAnaphora (linguistics) Wikipedia
Indexicality Wikipedia
Indexicals Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy