Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Harmonizing Evolutionary Convergence

Glossary Menus

eis-

PIE root of words denoting passion.

Other possible derivatives include irascible, irate, ire, from Latin īra ‘anger’, oestrogen, from Greek oistros ‘gadfly; sting, pain; madness, frenzy’, and iron, from Old English īren.

[Pokorny *eis-1 ‘to move rapidly’, pp. 259–301.]

evolutionary hierarchy

In Integral Relational Logic, evolutionary hierarchy indicates the ontogenetic structure of generations of individuals, as they are born from their parents, during a billion years of sexual reproduction, as we see in family trees of ancestors and descendants.

aggregation hierarchy

In Integral Relational Logic, aggregation hierarchy indicates ‘part-of’ relationships between members of classes, as entities.

A familiar example is an organization chart in business, where humans are members of sections, which are parts of departments, as parts of divisions, as parts of companies, and as parts of conglomerates, each with their own leader.

generalization hierarchy

In Integral Relational Logic, generalization hierarchy indicates ‘kind-of’ relationships between classes of entities, as universals, like a taxonomy.

To give a simple example, subclasses of the class Quadrilateral can be depicted in a diagram like this:

hierarchy

In Integral Relational Logic, hierarchy is a primal concept, indicating three principal types of hierarchical relationships, which can be connected to form networks, as interpreted structures, generally easier to understand than their dual associative relationships, which can lead t