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1913 W. T. Jones tr. R. Eucken Truth of Relig. ix. 311 A counter-effect is produced by the practico-social [Ger. praktisch-soziale] life with its development of the contact with the environment and with its participation in the energies of the ordinary everyday experience.

1924 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 30 188 Those practico-social questions which so powerfully grip the sympathies and passions of the present generation.

1927 Observer 9 Oct. 14 Of the practico-theoretical few things could be better than Arrangement, which takes none but crucial instances, and comments on them in modest and happy phrase.

1970 B. Brewster tr. L. Althusser & E. Balibar Reading Capital i. 54 In the 1857 Introduction, Marx writes..‘practico-spiritual (praktisch-geistig) appropriation of this world’.

1970 B. Brewster tr. L. Althusser & E. Balibar Reading Capital (1975) ii. iii. 83 All the visible phenomena and practico-empirical [Fr. empirico-pratiques] concepts produced by the economic world.

1987 New Left Rev. 163 May–June 69 At the heart of their book there is a ‘double void’: double, because empty, equally, of theoretical substance and of any genuine practico-normative specificity or direction.

1991 Rev. Anthropol. 20 50 In ideologies, the ‘practico-social function is more important’ than is ‘the theoretical function’.

2000 C. Norris Quantum Theory & Flight from Realism iii. 86 He saw no problem with this idea just so long as the phenomenon could not be used to transmit information over vast distances at superluminal velocity, a consequence which is anyway safely ruled out on other practico-theoretical grounds.