Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Harmonizing Evolutionary Convergence

Glossary Menus

consistency

One of the four fundamental principles of concept formation in Integral Relational Logic meaning ‘adhering to the same set of principles’. Western dictionaries then go on to say that consistency means ‘not contradictory’. But such a view of consistency is not egalitarian, not consistent; it treats some concepts, in this case paradoxes, in a different way from other concepts.

Integral Relational Logic corrects this dualistic approach to learning for the Universe is inherently paradoxical. It follows E. F. Schumacher’s maxim for mapmaking: “Accept everything; reject nothing.” To illustrate this principle, the equation s = vt has exactly the same form as V = iR, F = ma, and cost = quantity*price. So mathematicians (and computer programmers) treat space, time, and mass in exactly the same way as all other variables. We do the same in Integral Relational Logic, thus freeing ourselves of the delusion that the physical universe provides the overall context for our lives and that all phenomena in the Universe, including human behaviour, can be explained in terms of the laws of physics.

Etymology

1594, ‘firmness of matter’, from Medieval Latin consistentia, literally ‘a standing together’, or directly from Latin consistentem (nominative consistens), present participle of cōnsistere ‘to stand firm, take a standing position, stop, halt’, from assimilated form of com, intensive prefix, from PIE base *kom-, and sistere ‘to place’, causative of stāre ‘to stand, be standing’, from PIE base *sta- ‘to stand, make or be firm’.

Meaning ‘state of being in agreement or harmony’ (with something) is from 1650s; meaning ‘steady adherence to principles, patterns of action, etc.’ is from 1716. Meaning ‘harmonious connection, as of the parts of a system’, is from 1787.

However, this view of harmony is not consistent with Heraclitus’s Hidden Harmony. For he said, “The Hidden Harmony is better than the obvious,” and “Opposition brings concord; out of discord comes the fairest harmony.” This understanding is absolutely essential. For we live in a paradoxical world, and so if we do not acknowledge this, we cannot live in peace and harmony with each other.

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