Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Harmonizing Evolutionary Convergence

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telə-

PIE base ‘to lift, support, weigh’, with derivatives referring to measured weights and thence to money and payment.

Other derivatives include tolerate, extol, atlas, superlative, and translate, the last two, like relative, deriving from Latin lātus ‘carried, borne’, used as the suppletive past participle of ferre ‘to bear’ (see *bher-1).

Lātus was not the original past participle of ferre ‘to carry’; it was drafted in from tollere ‘to raise’.” (Ayto) This meaning of lātus seems to be distinct from lātus ‘broad, wide’ and latus ‘side, flank’. De Vann says that this last word has “no good available etymology”, which the Online Dictionary of Etymology quotes, but De Vann does give a similar PIE root for tollere.

[Pokorny *tel-, telə-, tlē(i)-, tlā-,  pp. 1060–1061.]

relationship

In Integral Relational Logic, relationship is a primal concept, not easy to define. For all concepts are formed by comparing the relationships of data patterns with each other. So, what should relationship be compared to?

relation

In Integral Relational Logic, a relation is a concise way of representing relationships, highlighting the universal class, entity (as instance of class), and attribute structure of knowledge and information, notions that have evolved from Plato’s The Republic (as universal and particular) and Aristotle’s Prior Analytics (as subject and predica