One of the four fundamental principles of concept formation in Integral Relational Logic. By using our Self-reflective Divine Intelligence in the coherent light of Consciousness, free of our mechanistic conditioning, we pay careful attention to the similarities and differences in the data patterns of our experience. As David Bohm points out, in general, we can bring our concepts into universal order by giving attention to similar differences and different similarities, a notion of order that the artist Charles Biederman gave him.
About 1425, clarite ‘brightness’, from Middle English clarte, clerte ‘brightness, radiance; glory, splendour’, from Old French clarté, from Latin clāritās ‘clearness’, from clārare ‘make clear, bright’, from clārus ‘clear, bright, distinct, illustrious’, related to clāmare ‘to call, shout, cry aloud’, from PIE base *kelə-² ‘to shout’.