We are taught to think of language as words strung together with grammar. Words evoke specific referents: “apple” refers to the fruit, “yesterday” means the day before today. Then grammar provides the ...

His approach was pragmatic problem-solving, which eventually led to what was probably his greatest of social accomplishment, Social Security. This is pragmatism, not ideology.

Schwartz and Lellouch were the first to use the word “pragmatic” in relation to clinical trials in 1967. They defined a pragmatic trial as a trial designed to help chose between care options, as ...

Mahmoud A. Al-Khatib, The Concept of Justice in Islam, Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies, Vol. 10, No. 5, Special Issue: Speech Acts: Research Studies across Languages and Cultures (2023), pp. 45 ...