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  • Where the focus used to lie on body politics, imagining the state as something to be formed with one General Will, we should be looking into politics of pragmatism. ( 'pragmata' being Greek for 'things').

    Masters of Media, New Media MA Amsterdam 2008

  • (In Cat., 81, 25-34) emphasizes that truth is neither in the things or states of affairs (pragmata) themselves, nor in the statement itself, but lies in the agreement between the two; he gives the simile of the fitting shoe, the fit consisting in a relation between shoe and foot, not to be found in either one by itself.

    The Correspondence Theory of Truth David, Marian 2009

  • [3794] One of the Antiochian Canons probably reflects the current language of an earlier antiquity thus: dia to en te metropolei pantachothen suntrechein pantas tous ta pragmata echontas: and, if so, this suntrechein gives the meaning of convenire.

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • No repetition of [Greek: pragmata] goes to form a habit.

    Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

  • II. iv., where Christians are told by their opponents, pantes heautous phoneusantes poreuesthe ēdē para ton theon kai hēmin pragmata mē parechete Tertullian relates (ad Scap. v.) how Arrius Antoninus, the proconsul of Asia, called out to the

    The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

  • * Deisas to epi tosonde pithanon autou tois anthropois me epi apostasei tini pheroi; panta gar eo'kesan sumboule te ekeinou praxontes, polu kreitton hegeitai prin ti neoteron ex autou genesthai, prolabon anai'rein e metaboles genomenes eis ta pragmata empeson metanoein: [1351] 1

    The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical Developement. 1789-1850 1870

  • "Deisas to epi tosonde pithanon autou tois anthropois me epi apostasei tini pheroi; panta gar eo'kesan sumboule te ekeinou praxontes, polu kreitton hegeitai prin ti neoteron ex autou genesthai, prolabon anai'rein e metaboles genomenes eis ta pragmata empeson metanoein."

    The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical Developement. 1789-1850 1870

  • Kalon is to kaloun ta pragmata -- this is mind (nous or dianoia); which is also the principle of beauty; and which doing the works of beauty, is therefore rightly called the beautiful.

    Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

  • Oration _de Pace_, reproaches the Athenians with acting without any settled plan: [Greek: _Oi men gar alloi puntes anthropoi pro ton pragmatonheiothasi chraesthai to Bouleuesthai, umeis oude meta ta pragmata_.] [12] To act with promptitude and vigor -- _Maturè facto opus est_.

    Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War 86 BC-34? BC Sallust 1844

  • Platone in Gorgia: os an ta onomata eidei, eisetai kai ta pragmata: et ab Epicteto, archae paideuseos hae ton onomaton episkepsis: et prudentissime Galenus scribit, hae ton onomaton chraesis tarachtheisa kai taen ton pragmaton epitarattei gnosin.

    Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

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