I. Philosophy of Religion and Fundamental Theology

In modern philosophy, the term pragmatics (from Gk τὸ πρᾶγμα/tó prágma, “action, act, thing”) denotes both purposive and object-oriented cognition and action.

Departing from the usage of I. Kant, who understood the adjective pragmatisch instrumentally (e.g. Kritik der reinen Vernunft, 1781, B 834f.; ET: Critique of Pure Reason, 1881), semiotics follows in the footsteps of C.S. Peirce’s triadic theory of signs, rel…