Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Harmonizing Evolutionary Convergence

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per-⁵

PIE base ‘to traffic in, sell’, in sense ‘to hand over’, ‘distribute’, a verbal root belonging to the group of per¹.

Derivatives include praise, precious, price, appreciate, and pornography, from Greek pornē ‘prostitute’, originally ‘bought, purchased’.

[Pokorny per-2 C . per-, perə-, p. 817.]

interpretation

In Integral Relational Logic, interpretation is initially the process of turning meaningless data patterns into meaningful information and knowledge by paying careful attention to the similarities and differences in and between these patterns. As cognitive, learning animals, this is something we are constantly engaged in everyday, but not generally aware that we are doing so.