Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Harmonizing Evolutionary Convergence

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ser-²

PIE base ‘to line up’.

Other derivatives are assert, consort, exert, insert, series, sermon, and sorcerer, from Latin sors ‘lot, fortune’.

[Pokorny *ser-4 ‘to put together, bind together’ p. 911.]

sort

As a pattern-seeking species, sort is one of several words we use to denote distinctions in the data patterns of experience and organize our ideas, like arranging knives, forks, and spoons in kitchen drawers.

Sort plays an important role in computer science as a method for organizing lists numerically and alphabetically. But, in Integral Relational Logic, sort can be seen simply as a synonym of class.