Pragmatic mapping — a term in current use in linguistics, computing, cognitive psychology, and related fields — is the process by which a given abstract predicate (a symbol) comes to be associated through action (a dynamic index) with some particular logical object (an icon).
The logical object may be a thing, person, relation, event, situation, or a string of these at any conceivable level of complexity.
Pragmatic mapping is the process by which any material argument, or any imagined one, comes to be associated with a predicate that purports to be and succeeds in being about it.
The predication may be as simple as a naming act or as complex as a representation consisting of many distinct propositions with many associated clauses.
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