Pragma
The Stoics' term for a maxim of conduct meant to guide action rather than to describe the world.
What it commits you to
A pragma is a practical rule of thumb - act in this way - rather than a theoretical claim. Stoic ethics is built from them, and the handbook form of the Enchiridion is a collection. Pragmas are the closest ancient analogue to an operational specification, and their known weakness is the same one: they are stated for ordinary cases and have nothing to say about the case not anticipated.
Which realms lean on this
Philosophy carries the arguments the other four kinds are downstream of — what an agent is, what a person owes, what a rule is for.
philosophy · 8 realms — The Care Weft, The Contractual Court, The Existential Wilds, The Kantian Citadel, The Longview Foundry, The Middle Kingdom, The Pragmatic Wharf, The Sangha Terraces.
See also
Fallibilism
philosophyThe view that our beliefs are revisable and that confidence is never final.
Dialogue
philosophyInquiry conducted by question and answer rather than by assertion.
Muga
philosophyNot being: contentment with what is, without the effort to become otherwise.
Normativity
philosophyThe property of being able to count as a reason for action.