Paradigmatic vs Pragmatic - What's the difference?
paradigmatic | pragmatic |
of or pertaining to a paradigm
related as members of a substitution class
(obsolete) exemplary
(historical, religion) A writer of memoirs of religious persona, as examples of Christian excellence.
Practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory.
* The sturdy furniture in the student lounge was pragmatic , but unattractive.
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philosophical; dealing with causes, reasons, and effects, rather than with details and circumstances; said of literature.
* Sir W. Hamilton
* M. Arnold
As adjectives the difference between paradigmatic and pragmatic
is that paradigmatic is of or pertaining to a paradigm while pragmatic is practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory.As a noun paradigmatic
is (historical|religion) a writer of memoirs of religious persona, as examples of christian excellence.paradigmatic
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Adjective
(en adjective)See also
*syntagmaticNoun
(en noun)pragmatic
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Alternative forms
* pragmatick (archaic) * pragmatique (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Nor indeed are these restrictions pragmatic'' in nature: i.e. the ill-formedness of the ''heed''-sentences in (60) is entirely different in kind from the oddity of sentences like:
(61) !That man will eat any car which thinks he?s stupid
which is purely ''pragmatic (i.e. lies in the fact that (61) describes the kind of bizarre situation which just doesn?t happen in the world we are familiar with, where cars don?t think, and people don?t eat cars).
- Pragmatic history.
- Pragmatic poetry.